From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 28 23:58:20 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBF6516A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:58:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from msr57.hinet.net (msr57.hinet.net [168.95.4.157]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05E0C43D2F for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:58:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from distro.watch@msa.hinet.net) Received: from [192.168.1.22] (61-229-1-87.dynamic.hinet.net [61.229.1.87]) by msr57.hinet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA01677 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:58:18 +0800 (CST) From: Ladislav Bodnar Organization: DistroWatch.com To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:58:14 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503290758.14387.distro.watch@msa.hinet.net> Subject: Time zone change confuses cron X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:58:20 -0000 Hi, I've just changed the system time zone from local time to UTC by copying /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC to /etc/localtime. To my dismay, I found that crontab (both /etc/crontab and user-level crontab) completely ignores the change and continues executing scripts according to the old time. What am I doing wrong? Thanks a lot for your help :-)