Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula skipped 02:00 AM schedule on start of daylight saving

2012-03-26 10:15:14
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula skipped 02:00 AM schedule on start of daylight saving
From: Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:13:29 -0400
On 03/26/2012 09:53 AM, Josh Fisher wrote:
> 
> On 3/26/2012 4:57 AM, Alan Brown wrote:
>> On 26/03/12 08:59, Frank Seidinger wrote:
>>
>>> I run a daily schedule on 02:00 AM which was skipped last night, when
>>> the clocks advanced one hour forward from 02:00 AM to 03:00 AM when the
>>> daylight saving hast started in central Europe.
>> The standard workaround is to not schedule anything between 2am and 3am
> 
> Yes. There simple fix is to not schedule anything between 2-3:00 AM. 
> However, it would be nice if Bacula's date-time-specification allowed 
> specifying time zone information. That would be a proper fix, allowing 
> one to schedule by UTC time and avoid these issues altogether.

One could, of course, just run UTC on the server...


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