04-02-2009
It isn't really a "night shift". It is that when stuff breaks you have to fix it whether it is at night or during the day. I've had jobs where I worked almost all normal daytime hours, others where you had night or weekend work several times per month, and others where it depended on the project you worked on. If you had to do a big project on production servers you may work every weekend and a few weeknights per week for a few months, then back to more normal hours for a while. It all depends on how the company has set up their environment (how much redundancy and high-availability they use) and also their change control rules and customer service agreements.
One other thing I didn't mention last post. I've never in over 10 years of Unix work had a job where I didn't have to be on-call at least part of the time. So if you can't stand the idea of having to carry a pager/cellphone/blackberry and drop everything to respond if it goes off that would be a big roadblock too. I've had to leave church, cut short dates, or come home early from sporting events due to pages before. That's part of the job unfortunately. Either that or just sit at home at all times when you are the on-call person.
Usually that responsibility rotates among the team of admins, so you may end up with a day a week or a week each month or something like that. If it is a tiny shop with only 1 or 2 admins you may be always on-call, but for small shops like that typically there aren't that many servers so pages are pretty rare. The other extreme is giant shops with dozens of admins where you don't have to be on-call because some people are always at work to handle things.
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time::ctime
Time::CTime(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Time::CTime(3pm)
NAME
Time::CTime -- format times ala POSIX asctime
SYNOPSIS
use Time::CTime
print ctime(time);
print asctime(localtime(time));
print strftime(template, localtime(time));
strftime conversions
%% PERCENT
%a day of the week abbr
%A day of the week
%b month abbr
%B month
%c ctime format: Sat Nov 19 21:05:57 1994
%d DD
%D MM/DD/YY
%e numeric day of the month
%f floating point seconds (milliseconds): .314
%F floating point seconds (microseconds): .314159
%h month abbr
%H hour, 24 hour clock, leading 0's)
%I hour, 12 hour clock, leading 0's)
%j day of the year
%k hour
%l hour, 12 hour clock
%m month number, starting with 1, leading 0's
%M minute, leading 0's
%n NEWLINE
%o ornate day of month -- "1st", "2nd", "25th", etc.
%p AM or PM
%r time format: 09:05:57 PM
%R time format: 21:05
%S seconds, leading 0's
%t TAB
%T time format: 21:05:57
%U week number, Sunday as first day of week
%v DD-Mon-Year
%w day of the week, numerically, Sunday == 0
%W week number, Monday as first day of week
%x date format: 11/19/94
%X time format: 21:05:57
%y year (2 digits)
%Y year (4 digits)
%Z timezone in ascii. eg: PST
DESCRIPTION
This module provides routines to format dates. They correspond to the libc routines. &strftime() supports a pretty good set of coversions
-- more than most C libraries.
strftime supports a pretty good set of conversions.
The POSIX module has very similar functionality. You should consider using it instead if you do not have allergic reactions to system
libraries.
GENESIS
Written by David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.org>.
The starting point for this package was a posting by Paul Foley <paul@ascent.com>
LICENSE
Copyright (C) 1996-2010 David Muir Sharnoff. Copyright (C) 2011 Google, Inc. License hereby granted for anyone to use, modify or
redistribute this module at their own risk. Please feed useful changes back to cpan@dave.sharnoff.org.
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