[ILUG] Daylight Savings ! ! !

[Paul J Collins]

>>>>> "BJ" == Baldwin James <Baldwin_James at emc.com> writes:

    BJ> Can recent Distro releases of Linux handle this? i.e. does it
    BJ> pre-empt this condition and parse the Crontab for jobs in that
    BJ> inclusion time-zone and modify the timings of same by pushing
    BJ> them ahead an hour? maybe? and if so, what happens jobs which
    BJ> were scheduled in the hour which the 1-2AM jobs are pushed to?
    BJ> Carnage?

Vixie cron deals with situations like that.  Your jobs will be run
given time jumps of up to three hours either way.  Larger jumps are
considered clock adjustments and not daylight savings.  For the
low-down, see man 8 cron.

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