The time jumps at 2am, either forward or backward depending on
whether you're switching to or from DST. Most admins I know
just completely avoid the time period from 1:00am to 3:00am.
entirely because of the Daylight Saving Time switches.
If you're going to go UTC, then you should go UTC all the way
and not worry about what local time. That's what most DNS and
DHCP servers do. They happily splurk out logs, not worrying
about local time. When there's a problem, then it's up to
the lucky human to compute the local time.
-John
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 06:41:52PM +0100, Martin Simmons wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:34:09 +0200, Foo said:
> >
> > The best solution would be for Bacula to translate time to UTC internally
> > for scheduling, everything external such as logfiles, scheduling stanzas
> > in config etc. would remain in the user's locale.
>
> That doesn't help, because saying 2:05am local time in the config file is
> still ambiguous if the local time moves backwards by 1 hour at 3:00am. To
> resolve this, Bacula would have to use UTC in the config file as well.
> Alternatively, it would need some non-trivial code to deal with the
> duplicate/missing local times.
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