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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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