Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 09:04:15 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: mark thompson <thompson@squirrel.tgsoft.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.com Subject: Re: crontab nit? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970407090232.10264H-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19970406135347.2749.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com>
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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? Every country I've even been in or had dealings with changes at 2am on Saturday night/Sunday Morning, but in the back of my mind I think there is a middle eastern country which doesn't. Danny
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