[news.sysadmin] crontab and clock change

msb@sq.com (Mark Brader) (03/30/89)

To admins of those systems whose cron is not sufficiently smart to
compensate for the shift to daylight saving time:  You are reminded that,
at most places in North America, 1:59:59 am on Sunday, April 2, will be
followed 1 second later by 3:00:00 am.  Check your /usr/lib/crontab file!

In doing so, note that if you move a nightly or weekly job out of that
skipped interval by setting it one hour earlier, you will have to move
it again before October 29 or it will then be done twice.  Of course, you
can always choose to have *crontab* specify that the job run at different
times in different months, if you consider the cost reasonable.


Mark Brader		   "I don't care HOW you format   char c; while ((c =
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utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com    bug waiting to happen from the outset." --Doug Gwyn