Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 12:58:08 +0100 From: "Svein Halvor Halvorsen" <svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc> To: "Noel Jones" <noeldude@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: switching timezone within crontab? Message-ID: <bbe90d1d0603040358w19e04fcdu1036d0a2fbb32d58@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <cce506b0603032104j51c3a6e6laba9f74f57dd72f2@mail.gmail.com> References: <2a5241e00603031657h21aadc95vdc528553a9348c70@mail.gmail.com> <cce506b0603032104j51c3a6e6laba9f74f57dd72f2@mail.gmail.com>
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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.
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