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