Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 23:04:38 -0600 From: "Noel Jones" <noeldude@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: switching timezone within crontab? Message-ID: <cce506b0603032104j51c3a6e6laba9f74f57dd72f2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a5241e00603031657h21aadc95vdc528553a9348c70@mail.gmail.com> References: <2a5241e00603031657h21aadc95vdc528553a9348c70@mail.gmail.com>
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On 3/3/06, Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com> wrote: > Hey, > > So, we have systems running in Eastern and Pacific time zones as their > local time, not to mention DST. So, we like to schedule a few things > with UTC to save our sanity. > > If a system is not running UTC as its locale, but I want to schedule a > UTC cron job in crontab, is it sufficient to put a little: > TZ=3DUTC > Right before the job? > Pretty sure the above will only set the timezone for your job, and not alter the schedule time. But I don't know a solution to your problem. -- Noel Jones
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