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0 pointsDougN71y ago0 comments

I don’t know. I’ve written that seemed like obvious simple code that got tripped up with the 25 hour day on DST transition. That’s when I learned to stick to UTC.

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sgarland1y ago

Debian’s vixie-cron had a bug [0] where if the system TZ was changed without restarting crond, it would continue to run jobs based on the old TZ. It checked for DST transitions, but not TZ.

In fairness, it’s not something that should happen much at all, if ever.

[0]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1019716

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0 pointsDougN71y ago0 comments

I don’t know. I’ve written that seemed like obvious simple code that got tripped up with the 25 hour day on DST transition. That’s when I learned to stick to UTC.

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sgarland1y ago

Debian’s vixie-cron had a bug [0] where if the system TZ was changed without restarting crond, it would continue to run jobs based on the old TZ. It checked for DST transitions, but not TZ.

In fairness, it’s not something that should happen much at all, if ever.

[0]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1019716

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