Michael Monnerie writes:
> On Mittwoch, 5. April 2006 17:21 Justin Mason wrote:
> > no -- it's not the tag-time that matters; it's the time that the
> > mass-check started at, expressed in the UTC timezone.  Because the
> > "zmi" mass-check happens *after* 0000 UTC, it shows up as being in
> > the next "day" period.
> 
> I used to have this type of time scheduling problem the last time I 
> worked for a bank here in Austria: They've got lots of jobs running 
> over night, each at a fixed time. Because nobody knew exactly which job 
> depended on which other, they needed this. And they got problems when 
> some jobs only finished after another, depeding job started already. 
> For this, they had a special department searching the wrong transfers 
> and manually booking them back...
> 
> In short: I'll swap the mass_check with my backup times. So mass_check 
> will start at 01:03 from tonight.

thanks!

it is indeed batch processing, just like the 1970s all over again ;)

--j.

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