cron and GMT time?
i have a recently installed debian box that i'll be using for collecting
various logs. after setting up some cron jobs to automate this, they are
not running when i expected. if i have cron entries that look like:
@midnight /opt/admin/bin/swatch_newday.pl >> /dev/null
or
0 0 * * * /opt/admin/bin/swatch_newday.pl >> /dev/null
the jobs run at 19:00 rather than at midnight.
the date on the system appears to be set correctly and with the right time
zone (minneapolis, mn, USA):
[jarocki@king]/home/jarocki: date
Wed Aug 2 11:58:58 CDT 2006
and it looks like the time zone is set correctly too:
[jarocki@king]/etc: cat /etc/timezone
US/Central
so it appears that cron is interpreting my crontab with GMT time perhaps.
now i could just schedule my midnite job via "0 5 * * * /my/script" but
i'd prefer just to have cron act how i would expect.
anything obvious that i'm doing wrong or that i should check? or perhaps
the GMT thing is by design and i should just deal with it. thanx in
advance for any help/ideas.
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