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Date:      10 Jan 2000 14:27:46 +0100
From:      Bjorn Danielsson <carbon-unit-1@urquell.pilsnet.sunet.se>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UTC time in crontabs
Message-ID:  <yqfogauukdp.fsf@urquell.pilsnet.sunet.se>
In-Reply-To: "Daniel C. Sobral"'s message of "Sat, 01 Jan 2000 04:59:40 %2B0900"
References:  <yqfn1r6atpd.fsf@urquell.pilsnet.sunet.se> <386D0B2C.8F29EDE3@newsguy.com>

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"Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Bjorn Danielsson wrote:
> > 
> > I have made a small patch (about 10 lines of code) to "cron" that lets
> > people choose between localtime and gmtime for their crontab entries.
> > The choice is made depending on the setting of an environment variable
> > in the crontab file. The cost is a factor 2 for the tiny amount of work
> > that cron does when it checks all the crontab entries every minute.
> > 
> > Any interest in this?
> 
> I like it.

My UTC patch is available at:

http://urquell.pilsnet.sunet.se:8000/cron-utc-patch.txt

-- 
Björn Danielsson  KTHNOC / Swedish University Network
   (mail me for my real e-mail address)


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