Re: (ana)cron & local time changing ?
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 09:42:36AM +0100, Antal Ritter wrote:
> 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? :-) )
>
> Thanks for you time,
> Antal
>
>
AFAIK, this is a historical "feature" of cron. The fix is to not schedule
anything between 2 and 3 AM. If you do, once a year it won't get run,
and once a year it may well get run twice.
Mike
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