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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:56:23 -0500
From: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx>
To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@transsys.com>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>,
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Subject: Re: tz in cron
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If I'm not mistaken, cron parses the crontab for environment
variables, right?

It could probably internally setenv(3) TZ if it encounters it?

A.

On Wed Oct 30, 2002 at 11:51:33AM -0500, Louis A. Mamakos wrote:
> > 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?
> > 
> > randy
> 
> It looks like the cron uses localtime(), so perhaps you could set the
> TZ env var in /etc/rc when the cron daemon is started up.   Or
> play some hackery with the cron_program variable in /etc/rc.conf
> 
> louie
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