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Date:      Sun, 24 May 2009 01:48:31 -0300
From:      Gustavo De Nardin <gustavodn@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Sarah.Varney@marketmentat.com
Subject:   Re: Crontab for different ime zones
Message-ID:  <50af0a260905232148qf11e533q4c0143d6bcc044c0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1243136795.29198.42.camel@ubuntu>
References:  <1243136795.29198.42.camel@ubuntu>

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2009/5/24 GT <catch.all@marketmentat.com>:
> Late entry to this thread, but...
>
> I thought I had found an answer to this; at present I think I might have
> been mistaken.
>
> My crontab has about a dozen jobs that need to run in
> TZ=3DAmerica/New_York, and another dozen that ideally want
> TZ=3DAustralia/Sydney... the server default is America/Chicago.

[snip]

> =C2=A0 =C2=A0TZ=3DAustralia/Sydney
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0* 13 * * * date >> /home/mysite/public_html/tmp/log.txt 2>&1
>
> cron will NOT run the script... I bet it will wait until 13:00 CHICAGO
> time.
>
> I have a feeling that I am missing something relatively simple - at
> which point my dream of a super-cron will be realised and the stupidity
> of DST can be ignored (as it ought to be... ). I also bet that someone
> else has worked this out already, somewhere in the internets tubes...
> but i have been unable to find it.

I don't think the regular cron works like that. Check out
ports/sysutils/fcron (man 5 fcrontab .. OPTIONS .. timezone ..).

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