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On 6 Apr 1997, mark thompson wrote:

> /etc/daily didn't run last night. Looking at the log, it appears that
> when daylight savings time started, the hour of 2-3 was skipped. Oddly,
> 2 is when daily is scheduled to run. 
> 
> On my system, i just changed that to 1am. It seems that this might be a
> good idea in general in the US.
> 
> i18n question... around the world, when DST starts, what hour gets skipped?
> When it ends, what hour gets repeated?

Look in /usr/src/share/zoneinfo for that. It depends. In Israel the change
is always at midnight (so it is 12-1 one way, and then 12-11 the other way
around).

> 
> -mark
> 
Nadav