cron has gone to UTC time?
On a slink machine I have a crontab entry that should perform an rsync
of a site that I mirror around 22:40 my time (-0600). I have started to
get the reports from the job a little after 16:40 my time which just
happens to be 22:40 UTC.
$ crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.XXXXa09953 installed on Fri Nov 6 16:21:32 1998)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
# mail any output to `bates', no matter whose crontab this is
MAILTO=bates
#
# run forty one minutes after ten p.m., every day
41 22 * * * /usr/bin/rsync -vrlt --exclude=bin/linux/debian ftp.ci.tuwien.ac.at::CRAN /home/ftp/pub/R
$ date
Wed Jan 27 16:45:54 CST 1999
$ date --utc
Wed Jan 27 22:48:13 UTC 1999
The version of the cron package is
$ dpkg -s cron
Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-50
Maintainer: Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org>
Is there a chance that cron has switched to UTC?
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