Re: cron and timezones

1999-10-25 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 02:16:17PM -0700, brian moore wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:48:38PM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:36:21PM -0700, brian moore wrote: > > > > > > I'll assume you're in the UK: You are mistaken in believing your time > > > zone is set co

Re: cron and timezones

1999-10-25 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > I've just noticed that cron takes no notice of the current > timezone: all my cron jobs were running an hour late and I didn't > know why until recently. Restart cron, cron only reads the timezone file when it starts up first .. Jason

cron and timezones

1999-10-25 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I've just noticed that cron takes no notice of the current timezone: all my cron jobs were running an hour late and I didn't know why until recently. My timezone is set correctly, using tzconfig, so date gives: Mon Oct 25 20:35:42 BST 1999 Unfortunately, cron thinks this means 19:35:42 GMT, and