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Should I worry about Daylight saving time when planning to schedule backups?
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So if there is a day: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Daylight_saving_time when we have to e.g.: set our clock back from 3am to 2am. Ok. So if someone creates a cron job at 3am, then if a daylight saving day comes, the backup will run first at 3am, then the clock is automatically set…
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Use UTC and you should have no problems. For CRON you can apparently do this: /etc/default/rcS UTC=yes as per http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=497673
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