Chris Buckley wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> Is the system clock set to UTC? $ cat /etc/default/rcS >> >> You should see a line >> UTC=yes. > > A good point. It currently reads: > > UTC=no > >> I don't know if this matters, and with a tz of London it shouldn't >> account for 5 hrs. > > Agreed. It's certainly a very bizarre problem, and one which I have > a) not encountered before b) have no rational explanation.. :( > >> Is 09:45 the time the process starts > > Bang on, 09:45:01 it starts. You can see the process start and is > written to the cron.log output at the same time. Though, it's > recorded as starting at 04:45, which is clearly very wrong. > > I'll put a change in to switch the box to UTC, if the list things it > would be a prudent step? > > Appreciate your reply. > >
I had exactly the same problem a couple of days ago. I was surprised to find out that the /usr/share/zoneinfo/ mplah mplah file which defines my timezone was damaged (don't know how...). I replaced it and all was fine again... So, my suggestion, try to reinstall tzdata... G. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
