Re: cron on a system without a hardware persistant clock

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:11:33 +0100, David wrote in message 
<[🔎] 201109271011.33513.david.goodenough@btconnect.com>:

> Does anyone know if there is a way to tell and of the crons to
> ignore unset times?

..keep your script _simple_, on shutdowns or reboots etc 
(and unless you have very short life disks, every second,)  
'date -u >/path/to/last/known/time ', and on boot-up, 
'date -suf /path/to/last/known/time ', or somesuch.

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