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Re: Fwd: Re: cron in UTC?



On Thu, 09 Oct 2014, lee wrote:
> Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> writes:
> 
> > GMT/BST; I just want cron to trigger tasks at a fixed time each day,
> > regardless of localtime.
> 
> man cron:
> 
>        It is possible to use different time zones for crontables.  See
>        crontab(5) for more information.
>
> man 5 crontab:
> 
>        The CRON_TZ variable specifies the time zone specific for the

[...]


This is only supported in cronie, a fork of cron which is not the
default cron in Debian (but is present in other distributions.) [It's
currently in experimental only. See #511780 for the bug to switch to it
or ISC cron from Vixie cron.]

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