Why does my Pi NoIR camera stop working at 23:59?

Question

It's working the whole day but during the night it stops at 23:59

Somebody knows why?

My crontab looks like

30 19 * * * ./raspiLapseCam.py & 
30 06 * * * sudo pkill python 
45 06 * * * ./raspiLapseCam2.py & 
00 19 * * * sudo pkill python

What is working, and stops working? The camera? The hardware? How do you know it stopped working? — Bex, Mar 27 '15 at 12:50
to work taking pictures (timelapse - each minute). It' due to work from 7pm to 7am. Each day it is taking pic from 7pm and stop at 23:59. ??? — user3315730, Mar 27 '15 at 19:06
I get pictures every minutes from 7 PM andt it's scheduled to go on up to 7AM. Date and time are shown on the picture. Without any other command in crontab...There is no picture after 23:59 — user3315730, Mar 28 '15 at 22:23
Would you please post the crontab line and any script you use to realize this? — Bex, Mar 29 '15 at 10:50

Bex · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-29 13:02:12Z

It doesn't stop working. The script will save the files into a folder named after what time it started.

See line 67:

folderToSave = "timelapse_" + str(initYear) + str(initMonth) + str(initDate) + str(initHour) + str(initMins)

That means that the script does not stop working - you just have an offset in the folders.

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