On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Scott Silva wrote:
Voila - instant UTC clock. Never need to worry about daylight savings again.
Anybody can think of any problems with:
- the procedure I described?
- the simple fact of using the "true" UTC timezone?
System spikes caused by logrotation happening in the middle of the workday? Not a real problem, but the first one I could think of.
Solving that problem is as easy as adjusting the hour at which /usr/bin/run-parts is launched:
$EDITOR /etc/crontab