Re: Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?
On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 07:30:22AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> In a recent discussion, someone indicated that there might be a
> way to set individual parts such as accounts on a unix system so
> that cron could use another time zone if needed to kickoff jobs
> on that system based on the time in another country.
crontab(5)
LIMITATIONS
The cron daemon runs with a defined timezone. It currently does not
support per-user timezones. All the tasks: system's and user's will be
run based on the configured timezone. Even if a user specifies the TZ
environment variable in his crontab this will affect only the commands
executed in the crontab, not the execution of the crontab tasks them‐
selves.
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