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.