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Subject: Re: switching timezone within crontab?
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> On 3/3/06, Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com> wrote:
> > If a system is not running UTC as its locale, but I want to schedule a
> > UTC cron job in crontab, is it sufficient to put a little:
> > TZ=3DUTC
> > Right before the job?

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.