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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12 Description of problem: If you use a date with 'at' to schedule a job in the gap between 2am and 3am on the morning that daylight saving time begins, then at will reschedule the job for after 3am. (This makes sense, since the hour between 2 and 3 doesn't exist on that day.) But if you use a day of the week with at, it will schedule the job an hour earlier, between 1 and 2. > date Mon Mar 3 10:19:39 PST 2008 > at -f ./attest 0230 Mar9 job 29 at Sun Mar 9 03:30:00 2008 > at -f ./attest 0230 sunday job 30 at Sun Mar 9 01:30:00 2008 Something similar also happens in the fall: > at -f ./attest 0230 Nov2 job 31 at Sun Nov 2 02:30:00 2008 > at -f ./attest 0230 sunday + 34 weeks job 32 at Sun Nov 2 01:30:00 2008 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): at-3.1.10-19.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. echo "date >> /tmp/xxx" > attest 2. set the date to be the week before Mar 9, 2008 3. at -f ./attest 0230 Mar9 4. at -f ./attest 0230 sunday Actual Results: job 29 at Sun Mar 9 03:30:00 2008 job 30 at Sun Mar 9 01:30:00 2008 Expected Results: job 29 at Sun Mar 9 03:30:00 2008 job 30 at Sun Mar 9 03:30:00 2008 Additional info: Granted, this is an obscure problem that will only occur in two hours of the year. I'm not even sure that rescheduling jobs that fall into the DST gap an hour later is the proper thing to do. I would think, however, that all jobs should be rescheduled the same way, regardless of the format used to specify the time and date.
There is nothing to triage here (and one cannot underestimate importance of this bug for the further development of the Open Source movement). Switching to ASSIGNED so that developers have responsibility to do whatever they want to do with it.
I see you are interested in at from other bug reports. I'm aware of those problems. I have tried track down this problem in grammary of at but no luck yet. It looks like days are counted correctly. Patches are welcome. The other bug #478644 will be probably close this one. Maybe the conception of at didn't count with these things at all.
With at-3.1.13 [root@localhost ~]# date -s 20120325 Sun Mar 25 00:00:00 CET 2012 [root@localhost ~]# at 0230 sunday at> echo a at> <EOT> job 15 at Sun Apr 1 03:30:00 2012 [root@localhost ~]# at 0230 Mar 25 at> echo a at> <EOT> job 16 at Sun Mar 25 03:30:00 2012 So, now it jumps month forward, but only when that day is DST.
at 15:00 thursday at> echo bb at> <EOT> job 17 at Thu Jan 19 15:00:00 2012 [root@localhost ~]# at 3:00 thursday at> echo bb at> <EOT> job 18 at Thu Jan 19 03:00:00 2012 [root@localhost ~]# date Thu Jan 12 10:59:04 CET 2012 So, everytime when name of the day is used, then it's the next week, not today. The reported bug was fixed in at-3.1.13.