Re: Cron sometimes starts two jobs from the same crontab entry

[Ed Greshko]

On 2020-04-08 21:37, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-04-08 at 20:28 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > > I don't know how it works where you live, but in the UK the autumn
> > > switch occurs at 2am, which reverts back to being 1am. Thus a time such
> > > as 1:30am occurs twice, and events programmed for that time can be
> > > triggered twice.
> >
> > BUT, we are specifically addressing the OP's situation and the time in his crontab ISN'T within the
> > time frame of when BST (the OP is in the UK) starts/ends.
>
> Yes, that's clear. I was simply answering the general question (since
> you said "to/from DST"), even though it doesn't apparently affect cron
> as such, as documented in the manual.

OK then.