From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
Cc: DM <dm.aeqa@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Urgent PST time changing tonight
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 13:18:33 -0600
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On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Steve Crawford
<scrawford@pinpointresearch.com> wrote:
> Then there are the scripts that calculate dates externally for feeding into
> your database-backed processes (for fun, try "-d yesterday" and "-d
> tomorrow" in most versions of the "date" command in the vicinity of DST
> changes).
I ran into an issue with this a while back. We were running fairly
modern distros at work, but older ones in production, and a script I'd
written and tested on my workstation failed miserably if you ran it
between midnight and 2/3am the sunday of the time shift on the
production machines.
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