First off, please note that this isn't explicitly a perl question and thus is (only slightly) off topic.

I have a perl script that is set to execute via a crontab entry on solaris 2.8 every night at 1 am. Last Saturday I was surprized to find that scripted failed to run.

My running theory for this is that DST on this particular machine caused the clock to go from 12pm to 1am with no time happening in between (the definition of DST). Thus any cron jobs scheduled for then were skipped that night.

Anyone else have issues like this? Did you expect this behavior? Did you expect this to happen between 12 midnight and 1 am?

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In reply to OT: Crontab entry missed due to Daylight savings time? by freddo411

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