Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-116 Severity: wishlist According to crontab(7) there's no possibility to write cronjobs which are independent of local DST regulations if the local time of the system uses a timezone with a DST rule.
An elegant and backwards-compatible solution for this problem seems to me the patch by Björn Danielsson as published on http://widell.net/scripts/bd/dst/. I therefore would appreciate if this patch would be applied to Debian's version of cron. -- Package-specific info:
--- EDITOR: not set --- usr/bin/editor: /usr/bin/zile --- /usr/bin/crontab: -rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 30248 Dec 19 00:46 /usr/bin/crontab --- /var/spool/cron drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 11 2008 /var/spool/cron --- /var/spool/cron/crontabs drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 Mar 14 2008 /var/spool/cron/crontabs
-- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (110, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages cron depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups ii debianutils 3.4.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dpkg 1.15.8.7 Debian package management system ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libpam-runtime 1.1.1-6.1 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-26 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip Versions of packages cron recommends: ii lockfile-progs 0.1.15 Programs for locking and unlocking ii postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.7.1-1 High-performance mail transport ag Versions of packages cron suggests: ii anacron 2.3-14 cron-like program that doesn't go pn checksecurity <none> (no description available) ii logrotate 3.7.8-6 Log rotation utility Versions of packages cron is related to: pn libnss-ldap <none> (no description available) pn libnss-ldapd <none> (no description available) pn libpam-ldap <none> (no description available) pn libpam-mount <none> (no description available) pn nis <none> (no description available) pn nscd <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information
