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Don't start jobs between the times when clocks change in your location.

For example In the UK the clocks go forward 1 hour at 1am on the last Sunday in March, and back 1 hour at 2am on the last Sunday in October so you can change the start time to 00:55 or 02:05 to completely avoid the 01:nn hour so you don't get this issue (and document why you have made the change so someone doesn't change it back).

I don't like the idea of ignoring a whole hour of my maintenance window in order to defend myself from a problem that only happens once a year.

Moving from 01:05 to 00:55 is a 10 minute difference and once the job starts it will continue running during the clock change. Another alternative is to run the job at 01:05 except on the days when there is a clock change and use a different start time on those days. - MT0

Don't start jobs between the times when clocks change in your location.

For example In the UK the clocks go forward 1 hour at 1am on the last Sunday in March, and back 1 hour at 2am on the last Sunday in October. Therefore it is only 01:nn times that can happen twice or not at all due to DST changes. So you can change the start time to 00:55 or 02:05 to completely avoid this issue (and document why you have made the change so someone doesn't change it back).

I don't like the idea of ignoring a whole hour of my maintenance window in order to defend myself from a problem that only happens once a year.

Moving from 01:05 to 00:55 is a 10 minute difference and once the job starts it will continue running during the clock change. Another alternative is to run the job at 01:05 except on the days when there is a clock change and use a different start time on those days. - MT0

Don't start jobs between the times when clocks change. Change the start time to 00:55 or 02:05 so you don't get this issue (and document why you have made the change so someone doesn't change it back).

I don't like the idea of ignoring a whole hour of my maintenance window in order to defend myself from a problem that only happens once a year.

Moving from 01:05 to 00:55 is a 10 minute difference and once the job starts it will continue running during the clock change. Another alternative is to run the job at 01:05 except on the days when there is a clock change and use a different start time on those days. - MT0

Don't start jobs between the times when clocks change in your location.

For example In the UK the clocks go forward 1 hour at 1am on the last Sunday in March, and back 1 hour at 2am on the last Sunday in October so you can change the start time to 00:55 or 02:05 to completely avoid the 01:nn hour so you don't get this issue (and document why you have made the change so someone doesn't change it back).

I don't like the idea of ignoring a whole hour of my maintenance window in order to defend myself from a problem that only happens once a year.

Moving from 01:05 to 00:55 is a 10 minute difference and once the job starts it will continue running during the clock change. Another alternative is to run the job at 01:05 except on the days when there is a clock change and use a different start time on those days. - MT0

Don't start jobs between the times when clocks change. Change the start time to 00:55 or 03:05 so you don't get this issue (and document why you have made the change so someone doesn't change it back).

I don't like the idea of ignoring a whole hour of my maintenance window in order to defend myself from a problem that only happens once a year.

Moving from 01:05 to 00:55 is a 10 minute difference and once the job starts it will continue running during the clock change. Another alternative is to run the job at 01:05 except on the days when there is a clock change and use a different start time on those days. - MT0

Don't start jobs between the times when clocks change. Change the start time to 00:55 or 02:05 so you don't get this issue (and document why you have made the change so someone doesn't change it back).

I don't like the idea of ignoring a whole hour of my maintenance window in order to defend myself from a problem that only happens once a year.

Moving from 01:05 to 00:55 is a 10 minute difference and once the job starts it will continue running during the clock change. Another alternative is to run the job at 01:05 except on the days when there is a clock change and use a different start time on those days. - MT0