The swich with dailight savings time

Ronald van der Pol rvdp at cs.vu.nl
Tue Apr 9 22:25:26 AEST 1991


>I have noticed that some of my cron jobs are running an hour later
>than they are normally run. Example uucp.cleanup is supposed to
>run at 23:45 but it is running at 00:45 instead. This has occured
>since the swich to EDT. The system swiched the time on sunday
>just like we would change the clocks automaticly. Now not all the
>jobs are running late just some. Have I come across a bug with
>SCO UNIX SYS V/386 Rel. 3.2.2. Or is there something that I should

I think so. We run SCO 3.2.2 too :-( and our times are completely wrong:

- it is 14:15 MET DST at the moment
- 'date' says it is 13:15 MET
- localtime(3) says it is 18:15 MET
- our TZ is 'MET-1MET DST,M3.5.0,M9.5.0'

What is going on here??


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	Ronald van der Pol    <rvdp at cs.vu.nl>



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