> On 21 Mar 2023, at 08:52, Mike Wright <nob...@nospam.hostisimo.com> wrote: > > On 3/19/23 21:19, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> Dear friends, >> I have a bunch of entries in my crontab, all doing different things at >> different times. These times are picked up by the computer clock. >> However, one particular task (downloading weather maps) would benefit if it >> was set to download using a clock that does not spring forward and fall >> back. This is because these maps appear to be released according to GMT/UTC >> and so setting the time according to the local clock does not quite work. (I >> am aware that I could set my cron job to be at a specific hour later than >> the actual during standard time, but I figured that this would be a good >> opportunity to get to know of such a possibility, if such exists.) >> So, how do I make a single entry that uses GMT or UTC, in my crontab? While >> also using the local time for the other tasks on crontab? > > That sounds ideal for a systemd timer since it has native support for UTC. > You'd need a .service to fetch the weather maps and a .timer to trigger the > .service. As far as systemd goes that is pretty basic.
Yep defaults to UTC but allows you to specify the time zone in the OnCalendar property. This is very useful. Barry > > Everything else would stay under cron. > > Mike Wright > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
