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authorGlen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>2012-04-28 22:48:00 +0000
committerGlen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>2012-04-28 22:48:00 +0000
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As cron(8) is started with '-s' by default, timezones that observe
DST should not need to worry about scheduling jobs when the DST time changes. Rather than removing the BUGS section in crontab(5) regarding this, note that disabling '-s' may still cause jobs to be executed twice or not at all. PR: 166318 Submitted by: Florian k Unglaub (f.unglaub%googlemail!com) MFC After: 1 week
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=234775
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diff --git a/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.5 b/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.5
index 65b56310c457..458175e7a48d 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.5
+++ b/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.5
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd January 28, 2012
+.Dd April 28, 2012
.Dt CRONTAB 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -296,10 +296,21 @@ are extensions.
.An Paul Vixie Aq paul@vix.com
.Sh BUGS
If you are in one of the 70-odd countries that observe Daylight
-Savings Time, jobs scheduled during the rollback or advance will be
-affected.
+Savings Time, jobs scheduled during the rollback or advance may be
+affected if
+.Xr cron 8
+is not started with the
+.Fl s
+flag.
In general, it is not a good idea to schedule jobs during
-this period.
+this period if
+.Xr cron 8
+is not started with the
+.Fl s
+flag, which is enabled by default.
+See
+.Xr cron 8
+for more details.
.Pp
For US timezones (except parts of AZ and HI) the time shift occurs at
2AM local time.