In article <[email protected]>,
Paul Goyette <[email protected]> wrote:
>The man page for cron(8) says
>
> Daylight Saving Time and other time changes
>
> ...
>
> Time changes of more than 3 hours are considered to be
> corrections to the clock or timezone, and the new time
> is used immediately.
>
>
>However this does not seem to be working. I've recently updated my
>machine's time-zone from US/Pacific to Asia/Manila. Yet my daily(5)
>continues to run based on the original time-zone. The zone change
>amounts to a 15-hour difference, certainly enough to trigger the above
>3-hour rule.
I don't think that this sentence is worded properly. It means changes
to system time (the clock), not timezone. In FEATURES:
TZ can be set, but cron ignores it other than passing
it on through to the commands it runs.
>In order to get the schedule to sync-up with the new zone, I had to
>kill(1) and then restart cron.
Right...
christos
