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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