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cron package

  1. Bug #36690
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 36690

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In , Justin Pryzby (justinpryzby-users) wrote : Re: Bug#474157: cron: fails to run jobs during DST time changes

merge 217836 458123 474157
tag 474157 fixed-upstream
thanks

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 10:21:30AM +0400, Petya Kohts wrote:
> Jobs scheduled to run between 1 and 2 am
> are not run when time moves forward
> for 1-3 hours (at the beginning of DST) and
> are run twice when time moves backward
> for 1-3 hours (at the end of DST).
>
> Included is the patch against current trunk.
 Thanks for reporting. It seems to be the same as bug#217836. Can you
describe the derivation of your patch? It seems to be applied to
upstream cron code in version 4.1 from ISC.

I'm a bit confused about the state of DST handling; there was a patch
applied in Debian revision -53, but the patch is large (and combined
with other changes) so the (intended) effect of the changes aren't
entirely clear to me. As I recall, that patch also seemed to have
been applied in the ISC release.

Steve, do you recall what this patch was supposed to do? Where can I
find the openbsd diff (just looked, without success).