Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!rutgers!att!chinet!les From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Date: (SysVr3.2 cron) Message-ID: <9686@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 28 Sep 89 03:02:51 GMT References: <72074@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <1138@virtech.UUCP> <322@bilver.UUCP> <17@minya.UUCP> <2507@auspex.auspex.com> Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Distribution: usa Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix Lines: 14 In article <2507@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes: > With any luck, other vendors will pick the Olson code up as >well, and have all environments handle time zones in the same way; one >vendor that has picked up the Olson code is AT&T, for S5R4.... Does anyone know if SysVr3.2's cron is going to run all the crontab entries twice following the switch from daylight savings time. I have somewhat painful memories of this happening last year under SysVr3.1. I sort of expected it for the entries near 2 AM on the day of the change, but it continued to run *every* entry twice including some things that were only supposed to happen once at the end of the month. Les Mikesell