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Date:      Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:59:31 +0200
From:      Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
Subject:   Re: Crontab for different ime zones
Message-ID:  <200903310659.31371.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
In-Reply-To: <200903310452.n2V4qTXk091526@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
References:  <200903310452.n2V4qTXk091526@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>

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On Tuesday 31 March 2009 06:52:29 Olivier Nicole wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to start jobs with cron using different a time-zone
> different from local time zone?
>
> I am in a TZ that has no Daylight Savings Time, and would like to
> start a job (reccording of a web cast) in a TZ that has DST (so with a
> time difference that changes along the year).
>
> Is there an automatic/intelligent way to do that?

Not that I know of, yet since timezones only change twice a year you can look 
up the changes for the coming year and adjust the crontab accordingly.
-- 
Mel



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