Re: [Taskforest-discuss] Some additional questions about TaskForest

[Aijaz A. <en...@us...>]

Lana:

I've modified the test suite to include some tests on this issue.

There's a job that's scheduled to run every hour on the hour.  If the family
in which this job is scheduled uses a time zone that observes Daylight
Saving Time, the following happens: On the day that DST starts, that job
runs 23 times, because there are only 23 hours in that day.  On the day that
DST ends, the job runs 25 times, because there are 25 hours in that day.

If the family uses GMT, the job always runs exactly 24 times, even on the
days during which DST starts or ends.

Thanks for bringing this up (and thereby prompting me to add these tests).

Aijaz.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Aijaz Ansari
<en...@us...>wrote:

> Lana:
>
> GMT ISSUES
> As of version 1.24, there's an undocumented way to fool taskforest into
> thinking the current time is whatever you tell it.  I use it for testing.
> I'll test out your GMT questions, but I'm almost certain that GMT is immune
> to any DST issues, since it doesn't have DST.  This also means that you'll
> have exactly 24 hours in every day, and not 23 hours 1 day a year and 25
> another day.  I'm 99% sure, but I'll run tests and let you know.  Thanks for
> bringing this up.  This should be a test.
>
>