Gordon Tetlow stated:
: Hello there...
:
: On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Vivek Khera wrote:
:
: > There's one "bad" default that might like to get changed. That is the
: > time that cron runs the daily scripts. The current setting in
: > /etc/crontab is 1:59 in the morning. Well, last Sunday that time
: > occurred twice as we switched from daylight to standard time. The
: > times between 1am and 3am should be avoided for any system cron jobs
: > just because of this problem.
:
: >From what I recall (off the top of my head no less) is that the time
: change in the fall occurs at 3am [ECMP]DT and jumps back to 2am [ECMP]ST.
: In the spring, at 2am it jumps to 3am. 1:59am will reliably occur once
: every day of the year. At least that is how it is done in the US.
:
gordon-
all of my daily scripts were run twice as well.
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