Re: crontab failure for daylight savings

[Billy Naylor <billy.naylor@actrix.co.nz>]

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 12:09, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> Billy Naylor said on Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:04:37AM +1300:
> > Hi
> > 
> > It appears that cronjobs running between 2am and 3am sunday morning
> > seem to not have been run, i'm in New Zealand which went into summer
> > daylight savings over the weekend.
> > 
> > Has anyone else seen this problem?
> 
> I think this only happens if your system clock is running in localtime instead
> of UTC.  You should double check that /etc/default/rcS has UTC=yes, and that
> hwclock shows the time in UTC and not local.

Thanks, i can confirm that /etc/default/rcS does have UTC=yes

our hwclocks all show the same time as date..

fly:~# /sbin/hwclock 
Tue Oct  7 15:44:28 2003  -0.622797 seconds
fly:~# date
Tue Oct  7 15:44:30 NZDT 2003

all of our debian servers show the same behaviour, my fellow sysadmins
are adamant that the hwclocks where set to UTC during setup. If fact 
one sysadmin *knows* he asked it to be set to UTC.

Can other people take a look at their systems?

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