Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:30:27 +0000 From: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> To: lomifeh@earthlink.net, randy@psg.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tz in cron Message-ID: <E186vjf-000DKr-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <E2B79930-EC21-11D6-9FE7-000393A335A2@earthlink.net>
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> > 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
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