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From: mvadh@cbnews.ATT.COM (andrew.d.hay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Its that time of year!
Keywords: Daylight Savings Time
Message-ID: <5242@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 30 Mar 89 11:47:03 GMT
References: <2666@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: mvadh@cbnews.ATT.COM (andrew.d.hay)
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In article <2666@cuuxb.ATT.COM> dlm@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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