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Re: crontab on UTC?



Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> writes:

> however, every night at 8 PM, the job executes, and not at 2 AM.  i'm 6
> hours behind UTC -- could my crontab be on UTC somehow?  both 'date' and
> 'hwclock' produce the local time output, and i've never seen this
> before.

Is /etc/localtime a symlink to the correct file?  Or is it a copy of a
zoneinfo file?  What does

        $ ls -l /etc/localtime
        $ ls -lL /etc/localtime

show?  Also, what is the output of

        $ date
        $ date -u

on your system?


urs



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