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 -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680
