The switch to daylight savings time

[Ronald S H Khoo]

gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:

> I don't know about your system, but genuine UNIX handles such mappings
> as DST entirely in user mode,

What do you recommend regarding things like cron?

	a) run it in GMT
	b) run it in local standard time, ignoring daylight.
	c) run it in local time, restarting cron twice a year
	d) teach cron to notice when someone's edited /etc/TIMEZONE
	e) any others?

I opt for c) because uucp's crontab wants to run in the same timezone
as British Telecom's charging algorithm (;-)  I'm not sure about d).
Any good arguments for or against any or none of the above?
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