On 02/04/05 21:35 -0500, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: > Hi All, > > Today (or rather, tonight) is when most of North America switches to > Daylight Saving Time. I am curious how Linux cron deals with this > change. I'd imagine: > > 1. In spring, cron will skip anything scheduled between 2:00 AM and > 2:59 AM on the day DST comes into force. > 2. In fall, cron will run anything scheduled between these two times -twice-. > > Is that true? Why cannot it be made better? Any suggestions? > Most Unix implementations do the same (this was discussed on the comp.unix.admin newsgroup).
DST breaks the 24 hour clock scenario, and is not global. So the authors of cron simply chose to ignore the two special cases for most implementations. Devdas Bhagat ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
