Re: cron missed jobs when clocks went forward

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:35:17 -0500

In article <9607ea95.0403301241.283a555d@posting.google.com>,
 cconnell_1@lycos.com (chris-c) wrote:

> Dave Hinz <davehinz@spamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:<c4brcr$2fgi6p$1@ID-134476.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> > On 30 Mar 2004 03:13:48 -0800, chris-c <cconnell_1@lycos.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > All the cronjobs on our servers did not run after the clocks went
> > > forward. I have checked the times on the servers and they are all the
> > > same as we use an ntp server. Any ideas on this one please?
> >
> > Why is it that several times a week, people will ask an OS-specific
> > question without telling us their OS?
>
> Sorry - Solaris8. Configured ntp client on all servers and the
> timezone is set to BST. The cron jobs run at 10 minutes past 12 every
> morning. The clocks went forward on Sunday morning (28 I believe) and
> all the jobs on the servers did not run. This is the first time its
> happened :-(

Was it all the cron jobs, or just the one cron job at 12:10, that were
affected by this?

What time of day does the clock jump forward? Did it skip over the
midnight-1am hour, so that there was no 12:10 that day? 

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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