Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 17:07:16 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: "Dragoncrest" <dragoncrest@voyager.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reports are running too early?? Message-ID: <200308091707.16018.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200308081806.h78I6LTa023566@mail5.mx.voyager.net> References: <200308081806.h78I6LTa023566@mail5.mx.voyager.net>
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On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 02:56, Dragoncrest wrote: > Not sure what to do about this, but for some strange reason all of my > reports are running 4 hours ahead of schedule. Cron has everything > scheduled at the proper 3am, 4am, and 5am like it should, but they're > actually generating at 11pm, midnight, and 1am instead. Anyone have an= y > idea why this might be happening? > I notice 4 hours corresponds to your offset from UTC. I have seen similar sorts of problems on other systems such as HP-UX and=20 Ultrix which normally use TZ environment variable to set the local time z= one. It seem that it is difficult to make the entire system see the variable. However I've not seen the problem on FreeBSD where use of TZ is not the n= orm=20 although I believe it is available as an alternative method of setting ti= me=20 zone. I think if you set the time zone during the normal installation procedure= with=20 FreeBSD you will have this set through a file /etc/localtime. I think tzsetup allows setting this via a menu on an established system -= -=20 then get rid of TZ if you have it. Malcolm Kay=20
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