Hello there...
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Vivek Khera wrote:
> There's one "bad" default that might like to get changed. That is the
> time that cron runs the daily scripts. The current setting in
> /etc/crontab is 1:59 in the morning. Well, last Sunday that time
> occurred twice as we switched from daylight to standard time. The
> times between 1am and 3am should be avoided for any system cron jobs
> just because of this problem.
>From what I recall (off the top of my head no less) is that the time
change in the fall occurs at 3am [ECMP]DT and jumps back to 2am [ECMP]ST.
In the spring, at 2am it jumps to 3am. 1:59am will reliably occur once
every day of the year. At least that is how it is done in the US.
-gordon
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