On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 08:02:23AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: cron > Version: 3.0pl1-104 > Severity: wishlist > File: /usr/share/man/man5/crontab.5.gz > > Please add a note to the bottom of crontab(5) along the lines of: > > Say one lives in Taiwan but has an account on a thousand user machine > in California. How can we write a crontab that will still work as if > it were in our own timezone? I.e., with times that mean my local time, > not the machine's local time.
You cannot, unless you make a separate cron daemon run in your local timezone. > So please document that there is no answer, or document the answer. Thanks. Cron is a global daemon, you cannot setup a per-user timezone but can do it globally (adjusting it in the init.d script). I'm sorry, but there is no way you can currently do it. I could document it in the manpage's BUGs section but it really looks like a corner case... Regards Javier
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