[Discuss] Cron fail lesson of the day

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On 9/16/19 3:23 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
> Not a cron fail as such but at one of my early gigs I had a machine
> with an hourly cron job that sometimes would run twice and sometimes
> not run at all.
>
> Turned out there were two time sync daemons running using different
> time servers and those two servers were far enough part that the system
> time intermittantly skipped past and back over the hour mark.

Time is hard. Seems like it should be easy. Which is a dangerous 
seduction...which causes more time-related bugs.

-kb