Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:08:16 -0800 From: Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com> To: Ladislav Bodnar <distro.watch@msa.hinet.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time zone change confuses cron Message-ID: <42489C70.2020306@toldme.com> In-Reply-To: <200503290758.14387.distro.watch@msa.hinet.net> References: <200503290758.14387.distro.watch@msa.hinet.net>
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Ladislav Bodnar wrote: >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? > To my knowledge, timezone is taken from the environment when a process starts. If you want cron to honor the new timezone, restart cron, or set the TZ explicitly in the relevant crontab. -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/
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