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		mulmen 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013) Does that mean you ran PST during daylight savings time and half the year your logs were “off” by an hour? Or did you actually run Pacific Time and deal with the clock changes twice a year?

dpoloncsak 4 months ago [–]

Doesn't the JVM handle this when you set the tz? Otherwise...how is it different than just setting a clock?

array_key_first 4 months ago | [–]

They're two different timezones. One is a UTC offset and one is a dynamic timezone (DST).

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