Comment on The need for timezone awarenessComments−leni53611yAccording to cron's man page on Debian the "fix" that makes cron work on DST is "Debian specific". What happens on other distributions?On Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.task-scheduli...−Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd11yFedora uses cronie as crond, which does something similar: https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/cronie.git/tree/man/cron.8...−lautOP11yYou could the server timezone to UTC to avoid those problems.
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According to cron's man page on Debian the "fix" that makes cron work on DST is "Debian specific". What happens on other distributions?
On Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.task-scheduli...
Fedora uses cronie as crond, which does something similar: https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/cronie.git/tree/man/cron.8...
You could the server timezone to UTC to avoid those problems.