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I doubt anyone wants something to occur twice, but they might have an opinion on whether a 1:30am job should occur on the first 1:30am or the second 1:30am in t
by hunter2_ 6y ago
I doubt anyone wants something to occur twice, but they might have an opinion on whether a 1:30am job should occur on the first 1:30am or the second 1:30am in the fall change. For the spring change, I think all jobs scheduled between 2am and 3am (a period that collapses into a moment) should ideally occur at said moment, but I can see how a smear might be more practical in many cases.
I don't recall how `cron` and other schedulers handle it, though.
- zwily 6y agoEvery software service I’ve worked on has had issues around DST transitions. That’s really the only programming benefit I see for getting rid of it going forward.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoI worked at a big tech company for half a decade, and without fail, every year there was some kind of serious bug caused by DST. Things either happened twice or never, it was always really painful. In any growth company, I would imagine that these things keep occurring, as people haven't hit the bugs themselves yet.