[colug-432] A Real Time Clock question

[Brian Miller]

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> You could make it work by adding ugliness: start at xx:59 and include a "sleep
> 55" before the actual recording command.
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> (Personally I'm in favor of everything saying the correct time, and then
> scheduling based on that.)
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It may be different in newer versions of cron, but the old standard was 
that cron would start something scheduled for a specific minute SOMETIME 
during that minute--there was no guarantee it would start on the first 
second of the scheduled minute.  cron wasn't designed for second by 
second processing.  If you want to make sure you record something, you 
really need to schedule it at xx:59, and have enough extra disk space to 
handle the extra data.