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Subject: Re: Crontab for different ime zones
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On Tuesday 31 March 2009 06:52:29 Olivier Nicole wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to start jobs with cron using different a time-zone
> different from local time zone?
>
> I am in a TZ that has no Daylight Savings Time, and would like to
> start a job (reccording of a web cast) in a TZ that has DST (so with a
> time difference that changes along the year).
>
> Is there an automatic/intelligent way to do that?

Not that I know of, yet since timezones only change twice a year you can look 
up the changes for the coming year and adjust the crontab accordingly.
-- 
Mel