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Date:      Mon, 7 Apr 1997 10:15:25 +0300 (IDT)
From:      Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.technion.ac.il>
To:        mark thompson <thompson@squirrel.tgsoft.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.com
Subject:   Re: crontab nit?
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.970407101406.18264A-100000@csd>
In-Reply-To: <19970406135347.2749.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com>

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On 6 Apr 1997, mark thompson wrote:

> /etc/daily didn't run last night. Looking at the log, it appears that
> when daylight savings time started, the hour of 2-3 was skipped. Oddly,
> 2 is when daily is scheduled to run. 
> 
> On my system, i just changed that to 1am. It seems that this might be a
> good idea in general in the US.
> 
> i18n question... around the world, when DST starts, what hour gets skipped?
> When it ends, what hour gets repeated?

Look in /usr/src/share/zoneinfo for that. It depends. In Israel the change
is always at midnight (so it is 12-1 one way, and then 12-11 the other way
around).

> 
> -mark
> 
Nadav




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