For the record, my RD’s behavior this year seemed to match Rob’s; at 3AM local, 
the 0200 AM programmed hour fired and played (since I had no other hard breaks 
during that hour). 
This year, for whatever reason, I removed some of the hard breaks around the 
0200 standard time hour, not sure I did that last year, don’t recall having an 
“issue” last year. At that time of night, I usually have TOH hard breaks at 
00:00.

Like Rob, not a major or minor complaint… as long as there’s not dead air, I’m 
happy with whatever runs (!!!).

in His service,
BJ Mora for GraceRadio at graceradio.net
KGCE-LP/Modesto NOW at FM 107.9!






> On Mar 11, 2019, at 5:19 AM, [email protected] 
> wrote:

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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 15:42:15 -0400
> From: Fred Gleason <[email protected]>
> To: User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System
>       <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [RDD] Daylight Saving Time issue
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> 
> On Mar 10, 2019, at 14:14, al davis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Not a surprise ... For that instant, the time is 2 AM, but one second
>> later it's 3:00:01.  The exact time of 3 AM does not exist.  It's just
>> like 2:30 AM.
> 
> Not quite. In the United States, the forward transition looks like this:
> 
> [?]
> 01:59:58
> 01:59:59
> 03:00:00
> 03:00:01
> [?]
> 
> So 03:00:00 actually does exist. The entire 2 AM hour however is skipped.
> 
> (Please note that this applies to forward transitions in the *United States*; 
> other jurisdictions apply DST on different dates and at different times, 
> where they apply it at all) (not all US jurisdictions apply it either).
> 
> 
>> What would you expect it to do with an event scheduled at 2:30 AM, in
>> the middle of the hour being skipped?  I am not asking what it does.  I
>> am asking what it should do.
> 
> That?s an easy one: skip it! 02:30:00 doesn?t exist in that case.
> 
> 
>> What should it do for an event scheduled at exactly 2 AM?
> 
> Ditto.
> 
> The really ?interesting? cases are those that arise in the Autumn (?fall 
> back?) transition, where the clock does this:
> 
> [?]
> 01:58:59
> 01:59:59
> 01:00:00
> 01:00:01
> [?]
> 
> So here, you get *two* 1 AM hours, occurring back-to-back. So, what ought to 
> happen to an event that is scheduled to execute at (say) 01:15:00? Should it 
> run just the first time? The second? *Both*?
> 
> But to answer Rob?s original question: the behavior of RDCatch at a DST 
> transition is currently ?undefined? (which is a weaselly way of saying ?we 
> have no idea what it does?).
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 20:57:51 -0400
> From: Chuck <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [RDD] Daylight Saving Time issue
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> Adding to Lorne's comment, I have always avoided using the exact TOH as
> an event time on time-change night and have never had any trouble in 5
> years of running Rivendell.  Also, just adding a report that an event
> for 03:00:13 last night, executed perfectly.
> 
> But if you are meeting the network straight up, that might pose a
> problem.  Perhaps a possible couple second upcut twice a year in the
> dead of night is acceptable?
> 
> --Chuck W.
> 
> On Sun Mar 10 13:22:03 EDT 2019
> Lorne Tyndale ltyndale at tyndaleweb.com wrote:
> 
>> If the clock is correct and changes as it should then this should 
>> work.
> 
>> However if for some reason the clock doesn't change, or if you're in 
>> a networked environment where all the rivendell workstation clocks 
>> are not sync'ed with the server, then I've run into issues - not 
>> related to time change, but related to when a workstation triggers 
>> an  event versus the time the server has (particularly with rdcatch).
>> 
>> One option is to schedule the event for 1 to 2 seconds after the TOH,
>> I've found that smooths out the RDCatch issues that I see 
>> occasionally. I imagine it should work for time change too.
>> 
>> Lorne Tyndale
> 
> On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 07:39:22 -0400 (EDT)
> Rob Landry <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> One of my clients had a timed event scheduled for 3:00 AM this 
>>> morning, that is, for the instant that 2 AM suddenly becomes 3 AM, 
>>> and the event did not fire.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone know if this feature has ever been tested under these 
>>> conditions?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Rob
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:19:57 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Rob Landry <[email protected]>
> To: al davis <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [RDD] Daylight Saving Time issue
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r"; Format="flowed"
> 
> On Sun, 10 Mar 2019, al davis wrote:
> 
>> What would you expect it to do with an event scheduled at 2:30 AM, in
>> the middle of the hour being skipped?  I am not asking what it does.  I
>> am asking what it should do.
> 
> I am not complaining, mind you, merely passing along the concerns of a 
> client, for the benefit of those who might want real-world feedback.
> 
> The fact that someone whould choose to schedule a timed event at 3 AM on a 
> "spring ahead" day is nothing short of astonishing to me, but then people 
> keep scheduling them at 11:59 PM and then wondering why the next day's log 
> got skipped. They ought to know better.
> 
> 
> Rob
> 
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