From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 21 5:12:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hecate.webcom.com (hecate.webcom.com [209.1.28.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BE2C14BD6 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 05:11:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from graeme@echidna.com) Received: from eresh.webcom.com (eresh.webcom.com [209.1.28.49]) by hecate.webcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id FAA06781 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 05:11:46 -0700 Received: from [63.75.211.217] by inanna.webcom.com (WebCom SMTP 1.2.1) with SMTP id 41366489; Thu Oct 21 05:06 PDT 1999 Message-Id: <380F0317.5C1E3A3@echidna.com> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 08:12:07 -0400 From: Graeme Tait Organization: Echidna X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02 [en]C-DIAL (WinNT; U) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Cron and daylight savings Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What happens if my machine is running local time with daylight savings adjustments, and I schedule jobs between 2 and 3 am (or whenever the transitions occurs)? Do they get skipped in the daylight savings transition in Spring and run twice in the Fall? I looked in the handbook and mailing list archives, but found nothing except for a couple of posts in 1995, with the statement that this issue was under discussion. I notice that /etc/crontab schedules daily maintenance for 2 am. The issue raised in the 1995 post was that these activites were skipped in the April forward clock adjustment. -- Graeme Tait To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message