In the last episode (Mar 29), Ladislav Bodnar said:
> I've just changed the system time zone from local time to UTC by
> copying /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC to /etc/localtime. To my dismay,
> I found that crontab (both /etc/crontab and user-level crontab)
> completely ignores the change and continues executing scripts
> according to the old time.
If you haven't rebooted yet, restart cron. A process reads timezone
settings only once, during startup. You're not supposed to pull the
rug out from under its feet by switching /etc/localtime :)
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Dan Nelson
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