–sync failed last night because I didn’t change back to the correct settings. Though I was surprised it executed on Wednesday and not Thursday (45 5 * * 1,4). Isn’t 1,4 supposed to mean Monday and Thursday? My clock is set to UTC so 5:45AM is 11:45PM CST.

ebrake@medusa ~ $ emerge -pvuDN world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating world dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.13-r2 [2.12r-r8] USE="crypt nls -old-linux% (-selinux) (-old-crypt%) (-perl%*) (-static%)" 2,679 kB 

Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 2,679 kB