On 11/04/2012 03:16 PM, Michael George wrote: > Local time changes of less than three hours, such as those > caused by the start or end of Daylight Saving Time, are handled > specially. This only applies to jobs that run at a specific > time and jobs that are run with a granularity greater than one > hour. Jobs that run more frequently are scheduled normally. > > ... > > So it seems that DST changes are accommodated. Is there some > side-effect of the cron.<period> method of scheduling tasks that I'm > overlooking? >
The run-crons script is triggered every ten minutes, and so avoids the special handling. But the script is broken, and has been so forever: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69777
