From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 30 8:30:58 2002 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 E0EA137B401 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 08:30:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk (dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk [194.200.93.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4BD343E3B for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 08:30:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk) Received: from pfrench by mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 186vjf-000DKr-00; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:30:27 +0000 To: lomifeh@earthlink.net, randy@psg.com Subject: Re: tz in cron Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:30:27 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > in the man page and the code, i can see nothing like netbsd's CRON_TZ. > > so if i do, for example, TZ=GMT in crontab, can i run it in zulu? > > > > And you still want the system clock to be your local time zone? Is > that what you mean? This would be a fantasticly useful feature - it would avoid problems like last sundays of jobs running twice during the sutumn clock change due to careless scheduling for example. Knwing that the crontab is always in zulu/utc/gmt (or whatever you want to call the prime meridian this week:-) ) would mean you know precisely when each job will be run. -pcf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message