On a slink machine I have a crontab entry that should perform an rsync of a site that I mirror around 22:40 my time (-0600). I have started to get the reports from the job a little after 16:40 my time which just happens to be 22:40 UTC.
$ crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.XXXXa09953 installed on Fri Nov 6 16:21:32 1998) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) # mail any output to `bates', no matter whose crontab this is MAILTO=bates # # run forty one minutes after ten p.m., every day 41 22 * * * /usr/bin/rsync -vrlt --exclude=bin/linux/debian ftp.ci.tuwien.ac.at::CRAN /home/ftp/pub/R $ date Wed Jan 27 16:45:54 CST 1999 $ date --utc Wed Jan 27 22:48:13 UTC 1999 The version of the cron package is $ dpkg -s cron Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-50 Maintainer: Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Is there a chance that cron has switched to UTC?
