I know your pain, but you do not need to endure it.
For those jobs that are more critical than others, or for those that are more important than others (if not all), enterprise grade scheduling tools should be used. At UC Berkeley, our team provides a service to schedule jobs and file transfers that is available to the all UC teams for use. If you are interested in having your jobs scheduled or file transfers executed through the PCSSC tool, please visit our page to learn more about us, or send me a note and I can put you in touch with the right people. Cron is a choice that you always have, but we provide 24x7 monitoring, and other services that may help you sleep (instead of manage job failures through Daylight Saving Times)! Happy Scheduling! Daniel Companeetz Production Control Systems Administrator - Lead Architect *Infrastructure Services, IS&T* *UCB/UCOP/UCSF/UCPath* *2195 Hearst Avenue #330B* *Berkeley, CA 94720 * *Office: +1 (510) 664-7480* *Cell: +1 (510) 725-1790* *email: daniel.compane...@berkeley.edu <daniel.compane...@berkeley.edu>* http://ist.berkeley.edu/is/platforms/pcssc *Scheduled Unavailability: **3/19/16 – 3/26/16* * 4/27/16 – 5/1/16* *From:* micronet-list-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto: micronet-list-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] *On Behalf Of *Kostadin Ilov *Sent:* Monday, March 14, 2016 1:29 PM *To:* micronet-list@lists.berkeley.edu *Subject:* [Micronet] DST and Cron/At jobs Most of you probably are aware of this phenomenon, so I apologize for the spam. However, some of you might not and it is important to know and do plan for it. As you know, US and most of the world do change time to save money, called DayLightSaving. Soon, in California we may take this not so sure saving away, but until then, let be prepared. The problem arise when automatic jobs are scheduled via cron or at ( or other task scheduler) on Sundays, between 2:00 and 3:00 ( and 1:00 - 2:00 ). When DST occurs, the time is changed and all jobs in these intervals will be skipped (or repeated). - spring (forward) - no jobs will run if scheduled between 2:00 and 3:00 - autumn (back) - double run of all jobs scheduled between 1:00 and 2:00 Happy croning.. -- Kostadin Ilov Systems Administrator (ASPIRE) a: UCB/EECS, 440/575 Soda Hall e: ki...@eecs.berkeley.edu parlab-supp...@eecs.berkeley.edu t: +1(510)643-3751
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