Re: (ana)cron & local time changing ?

[shaleh@clifford.livenet.net]

> 
> Hi,
> 
> What is the supposed behaviour of cron when the local time changes?
> 
> To put it more clearly: let's suppose that on the 28th of March 2 AM
> we have to skip forward an hour due to daylight savings time. What
> should happen to a script that is set up to run at eg. 2:20 AM 
> in my crontab file?
> 
> (To tell the truth, I tried it... The script didn't run on my
> system [with kernel 2.2.1, anacron 2.0.1-2]. So my question 
> in another form: Is it a bug that this script did not run, or 
> is it a feature? :-) )
> 

anacron is not time based.  Rather it says "has foo been run in the last x
<time>".  So since it ran cron.daily already, it does not force it to re-run.

cron on the other hand should theoretically re-run jobs, but this depends on
how it decides when to run what.

So as a summation, prolly a feature.