Re: Time zone change confuses cron

2005-03-28 Thread Dan Nelson
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 continu

Re: Time zone change confuses cron

2005-03-28 Thread Ladislav Bodnar
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 08:08, you wrote: > To my knowledge, timezone is taken from the environment when a process > starts.  If you want cron to honor the new timezone, restart cron, or > set the TZ explicitly in the relevant crontab. Ah, thank you very much. It's amazing that sometimes simple t

Re: Time zone change confuses cron

2005-03-28 Thread Danny Howard
Ladislav Bodnar wrote: Hi, 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

Time zone change confuses cron

2005-03-28 Thread Ladislav Bodnar
Hi, 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. Wh