A puzzle! Crontab and mkdir and files, oh my!

Thu Apr 24 13:28:11 UTC 2025

On Thu, 2025-04-24 at 14:23 +0100, David Fletcher wrote:
> All I want to say here is that I avoid asking cron to do anything
> between 01:00 - 02:00. Why? Because of daylight savings time. My home
> written software that emails diary reminders to me is called at 03:00
> each day which avoids any possible confusion as the clocks change.

A very good policy to follow on systems that use local time! Not an
issue for systems set to UTC.

Regards, K.

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