Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 08:29:36 -0800 From: "Danny Howard" <dannyman@toldme.com> To: "Svein Halvor Halvorsen" <svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc> Cc: Noel Jones <noeldude@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: switching timezone within crontab? Message-ID: <2a5241e00603060829q67354e29va361ab807c390e44@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <bbe90d1d0603040358w19e04fcdu1036d0a2fbb32d58@mail.gmail.com> References: <2a5241e00603031657h21aadc95vdc528553a9348c70@mail.gmail.com> <cce506b0603032104j51c3a6e6laba9f74f57dd72f2@mail.gmail.com> <bbe90d1d0603040358w19e04fcdu1036d0a2fbb32d58@mail.gmail.com>
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> On 3/4/06, Noel Jones <noeldude@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > How about running cron with the TZ environment set? > Ie. setting TZ=3DUTC in /etc/rc.d/cron > > I haven't tried this myself. Well, if I only ever wanted to schedule cron jobs in a single time zone, that might work. For my current case, its trying to transfer files over in a timely manner. I figured my local time zone hits last night's UTC midnight at 4pm or 5pm, depending on DST (this would be trivial if my UTC offset was static . . . DST is the most stupid kludge ever perpetrated . . .) . . . so, I just schedule the cron at 6pm, which is always at least an hour after midnight. (mmmm, delicious paradox. :) Thanks, -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com
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