On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 06:36:50PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 11/04/2012 03:16 PM, Michael George wrote: > > Local time changes of less than three hours, such as those > > caused by the start or end of Daylight Saving Time, are handled > > specially. This only applies to jobs that run at a specific > > time and jobs that are run with a granularity greater than one > > hour. Jobs that run more frequently are scheduled normally. > > > > ... > > > > So it seems that DST changes are accommodated. Is there some > > side-effect of the cron.<period> method of scheduling tasks that I'm > > overlooking? > > > > The run-crons script is triggered every ten minutes, and so avoids the > special handling. But the script is broken, and has been so forever: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69777
I'm surprised that hasn't been fixed by now. Looking at the cron guide (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69777), is bcron subject to the same problem because the run-crons script is in cronbase and not part of the cron daemon? -- -M Rident stolidi verba Latina. -Ovid
