At 4:31 PM -0700 4/26/06, Joel Jaeggli wrote: >On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Chris Ruprecht wrote: > >> Guys, >> >> I'm sure there is a solution for this: >> When I schedule a daily job to run at 1:30 AM and we switch from Winter to >> Summer time, the job doesn't run, because when the clock reaches 1 AM it's >> suddenly 2 AM and 1:30 AM never happens. >> >> The same job would run twice, when we switch back because when it's 2 AM, it >> has already run 30 minutes before, but then it's suddenly 1 AM again and >> it'll run again in 30 minutes. >> >> For simple clean-up jobs, this might be acceptable, but when running more >> complex jobs that need to run once and only once per day, this isn't >>going to >> work too well. >> >> Any ideas? > >Use UTC on all your servers, set local time zone inside your shell >(assuming you care). Daylight saving is really a convention for people not >machines anyway. Man cron says DST changes are handled automatically, and that the job(s) will run immediately when skipped over by a DST change. Since they're not, that seems to be where to start looking. And there's always anacron. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
