Re: Fwd: Re: cron in UTC?
Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> writes:
> 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
>
> [...]
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>
> This is only supported in cronie, a fork of cron which is not the
> default cron in Debian (but is present in other distributions.)
Sorry, I looked at the Fedora manpages and was unaware that they are
using a different cron than Debian does.
Wouldn't a script that changes the entries work?
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