Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!helios!n025fc From: n025fc@tamuts.tamu.edu (Kevin Weller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco Subject: Re: The swich with dailight savings time Message-ID: Date: 9 Apr 91 20:16:01 GMT References: <9@phlpa.UUCP> <1991Apr9.073715.8969@tygra.UUCP> Sender: news@helios.TAMU.EDU Organization: Texas A&M University, Computer Science Department Lines: 21 In-reply-to: jp@tygra.UUCP's message of 9 Apr 91 07:37:15 GMT In article <1991Apr9.073715.8969@tygra.UUCP> jp@tygra.UUCP (John Palmer) writes: > > HA! You're lucky. You have SCO UNIX! We XENIX people have to put up > with cron stopping altogether. It gets messed up by the switch to > EDT and just stops working. The cron process doesn't die or print any > error message, it just sits there looking stupid. Hmmm... guess you're just lucky. :-) My system adjusts the time properly, with no hang-ups, so it must not be a universal problem. It may be a problem with the interaction of the software with your clock hardware? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kevin L. Weller /-------+--------------------\ internet: n025fc@tamuts.tamu.edu | aTm | GIG 'EM, AGGIES! | CIS: 73327,1447 (but I rarely log on) \-------+--------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ %SYS-E-BADOPSYS, Fatal system error, DEC VMS halting / "And now for something -SYS-I-GETUNIX, Replace with UNIX immediately! / completely different." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Monty Python