Re: Setting The System Clock [Linux]

From: John-Paul Stewart (jpstewart_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 10/27/03


Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:51:38 -0500


[I apologize for following-up to myself.]

John-Paul Stewart wrote:
>
> The time change (and re-running
> of events) is clearly shown by the logs. Cron and its manpage are out
> of sync. Its either a bug in cron or a bug in the docs, AFAICT.

Apparently, I'm not the only one to notice this. Somebody else filed a
bug report (#217836) earlier today with Debian for this issue.



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