AS 2.1 did not execute cron job on 2:10 A.M. SUNDAy ???

Giulio Orsero giulioo at tiscalinet.it
Mon Apr 5 18:07:12 UTC 2004


On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 12:47:09 -0500, Ed Wilts <ewilts at ewilts.org> wrote:

>On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 05:10:12PM +0000, bbaa aaa wrote:
>> Thanks.  But I don't think it is bug on SUN, the reason is SUN and HP-UX 
>> both work correctly on 2:30 A.M.
>So both Solaris and HP-UX are broken.  There is no 2:30 AM, so what time
>did the cron jobs actually run?  At 3am (the first increment past 2am),
>3:30 am (half-hour after 2am), or 1:30am (half-hour before 3am)? 
>
>They could not have possibly run at 2:30AM when you told them to since
>there was no 2:30AM.

Maybe they work in UTC/GMT where there is no DST?
ie: you say "do this at 2am" and they translate it into UTC and set
themselves to do it at xx UTC?

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