In <20090322151837.7d584022.cele...@gmail.com>, Celejar wrote: >On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:18:34 +0000 >Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt> wrote: >> > and the date and time is correct. They're the same as the bios (cmos) >> > clock shows. >> I'd assume cron uses system-time, so whichever time 'date' tells >> you... Did you check to see you don't have any other cron-jobs alying >> around? >But IIUC, timezone is a property of individual user environments, and >is not a systemwide constant;
It can be overridden by an individual user's settings, but it is also configured system-wide via the /etc/localtime file/symlink. >date presumably uses the timezone of the >user invoking it. Indeed the date command is sensitive to those settings, as well as /etc/localtime. >I assume, but I'm no expert, that cron also uses the >timezone of the user whose cronjob it's currently running. I don't think the user's .bash_profile, .profile, etc. are sourced during a cron run. Your .bashrc might, but normally not. Even global files of this type like /etc/profile are generally not sourced during the cron run. This means that the user's overrides are generally not honored, so the timezone will be what is specified in /etc/localtime. The overrides are all via environment variables, so you can set them in your crontab if you want. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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