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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 cron is running on GMT
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At 09:14 PM 11/26/2005, Peter Jeremy wrote:
 
>On Sat, 2005-Nov-26 15:07:26 -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
>>By the way, the "date" command does report the correct time. It's cron
>>that seems to be getting the time wrong.
>
>You haven't accidently created a line that looks like 'TZ=' in the
>crontab have you?

Nope.

>Is this affecting all users or just one?

All.

I am wondering if I shouldn't just redo everything in the system that
has to do with time zones and time keeping (deleting files and re-creating
them if need be), reboot, and see what happens. I've never seen a good
explanation of all of the sysctl variables, environment variables, files,
etc. that control it, especially since (as I understand it) the responsibility
has been shifted from the kernel to libraries. Is there a summary out there?

--Brett Glass