On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 07:41:10AM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>
> The fall time change is interesting because it repeats an hour. This is
> why Unix chose to work with GMT originally. If an application decides to
> use local time, it could do strange things for that hour.

And the spring time change skips an hour, which can be equally
"interesting".  Of note, cron will happily run the same jobs twice on
fall-back day if you happen to think 01:30 is a fine time to schedule
something.  It can get messy if, for example, that's a convenient time
to run backups.

Not that I learned that the hard way...

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