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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Systemd timers screwed up by DST change?
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 22:49:45
Message-Id: CADPrc80P0Qw3aKkeu4v9_L=aPTSg61zAcaPMjYUv4oXfkmH5FA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Systemd timers screwed up by DST change? by Marc Joliet
1 On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote:
2 >
3 > Am Sun, 29 Mar 2015 12:48:18 -0600
4 > schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com>:
5 >
6 > [...]
7 > > Are you really sure "0/2:00" means "every 2 hours"? I don't see an
8 explicit
9 > > mention in man 7 systemd.time that 0 means "*-*-* 00:00:00". It really
10 > > worked bi-hourly before?
11 >
12 > Yes, it definitely worked before (I've been running this and other timers
13 for
14 > about a month). I don't remember how I inferred that rule, but I think it
15 was
16 > this bit from systemd.time(7):
17 >
18 > "Either time or date specification may be omitted, in which case the
19 > current day and 00:00:00 is implied, respectively. If the second
20 component
21 > is not specified, ":00" is assumed."
22 >
23 > But I don't see any definition for these components, so maybe I'm wrong
24 and my
25 > timer only works by accident.
26 >
27 > > Either way, it cretainly could be a bug.
28 >
29 > Perhaps, since it's back to the way it was before:
30 >
31 > # systemctl list-timers
32 > NEXT LEFT LAST
33 PASSED UNIT ACTIVATES
34 > Mo 2015-03-30 02:00:00 CEST 1h 44min left Mo 2015-03-30 00:00:00
35 CEST 15min ago backup-hourly.timer
36 backup@××××××.service
37 > [...]
38
39 Perhaps the bug is only in how systemctl presents the information.
40
41 Regards.
42 --
43 Canek Peláez Valdés
44 Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
45 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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