Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 10:05:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: cron skipped jobs during ST->DST change Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.950403094324.30033A-100000@alpha.dsu.edu>
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I just noticed that on Sunday, April 2 (the date of the Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time change here in the U.S.) cron (under 1.1.5) missed my /etc/daily jobs on all my systems with the default time of 2:00am for the job. I'm not sure whether this is "correct" behavior or not... If cron hasn't been changed/fixed since 1.1.5, can we adjust the execution time for /etc/daily in the default /etc/crontab to be earlier than 2:00am (say, around 0:59am)? Or, perhaps this is "locale-specific" and we system admins should know better than to leave cron jobs up to chance during time changes; if this is the case, however, it would be nice to have a warning in the crontab(5) man page... Guy Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services - ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu
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