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01-19-2008, 06:13 AM
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 Is crontab sensitive to time zones When a crontab is created does it conform to the users timezone or the servers timezone? If the crontab has to be created in accordance with the servers timezone is it possible to create a crontab in your user account's timezone and have it converted to the servers format automatically. Where is the user's crontab stored in any case? - voipfc      |
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| Re: Is crontab sensitive to time zones On 2007-06-30, voipfc <voipfc@googlemail.com> wrote: > When a crontab is created does it conform to the users timezone or the > servers timezone? The server. > If the crontab has to be created in accordance with the servers > timezone is it possible to create a crontab in your user account's > timezone and have it converted to the servers format automatically. How is the server supposed to know which in which timezone the user resides? The user should be the one doing the conversion, since the user knows where he is. --keith -- kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us (try just my userid to email me) AOLSFAQ=http://www.therockgarden.ca/aolsfaq.txt see X- headers for PGP signature information |
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| Re: Is crontab sensitive to time zones voipfc wrote: > When a crontab is created does it conform to the users timezone or the > servers timezone? > > If the crontab has to be created in accordance with the servers > timezone is it possible to create a crontab in your user account's > timezone and have it converted to the servers format automatically. > > Where is the user's crontab stored in any case? The server's TZ at least I have never come across a one that gave a damn about mine nor any transmission of my TZ in the login process. The only question I have found worth checking is if the server is on its local TZ or Greenwich time (or whatever it is called these days.) It is worth checking if daylight savings time might be an issue for you. -- If a politician says he is doing it for the good of the children rest assured it is about the money. -- The Iron Webmaster, 3802 nizkor http://www.giwersworld.org/nizkook/nizkook.phtml Israel says no extermination http://www.giwersworld.org/holo3/holo-survivors.phtml a13 |
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| Re: Is crontab sensitive to time zones voipfc wrote: > When a crontab is created does it conform to the users timezone or the > servers timezone? It ¨conforms¨ to the user´s timezone on the server. Just set TZ appropriately in your account on the server and you´ll be fine, -- John Hasler john@dhh.gt.org Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA |
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| Re: Is crontab sensitive to time zones John Hasler wrote: > voipfc wrote: >> When a crontab is created does it conform to the users timezone or the >> servers timezone? > > It ¨conforms¨ to the user´s timezone on the server. Just set TZ > appropriately in your account on the server and you´ll be fine, Not sure that is correct. Crontab itself runs as a root type process..it will pickup presumably what the server time is reckoned to be as the time to execute a script. However a users timezone will be picked up by any user installed scripts, under user space crontab entries. That wonlt affect WHEN they are executed..tho. Why not test by setting your local user TZ to something weird, and installing a cron script and have it simply echo the date? |
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