Its that time of year!

andrew.d.hay mvadh at cbnews.ATT.COM
Thu Mar 30 21:47:03 AEST 1989


In article <2666 at cuuxb.ATT.COM> dlm at cuuxb.att.com (Dennis L. Mumaugh) writes:
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"Also, you are warned that cron has problems with the time change.
"WE recommend that one kills cron (kill -15) and restarts cron
"AFTER making the above change.  Any cron job scheduled around
"that time may be run twice!


not true, in the spring;
jobs scheduled for the hour following your TZ fixer will be SKIPPED.
you do run over the same hour twice in the fall ---
i have my TZ fixer sleep for an hour so IT won't be run twice.
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