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Re: Cron Jobs and Time Zones Has Anything Changed?



Martin McCormick writes:

> 	I record a news broadcast from one of the BBC services
> every week day at 17:45 British time.  When Europe and North
> America stop or start shifting daylight in Autumn or Spring,
> there's a really good chance of missing some of the broadcasts if
> one doesn't think about it since these shifts don't all happen on
> the same time.

Maybe you could create ~/.config/cron/bcast.vixie:

45 17 * * mon-fri echo hello or whatever command you want

And install mcron, then run:

TZ=Europe/London mcron --daemon

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Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY
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