Crontab for different ime zones

2009-05-23 Thread GT
Late entry to this thread, but... I thought I had found an answer to this; at present I think I might have been mistaken. My crontab has about a dozen jobs that need to run in TZ=America/New_York, and another dozen that ideally want TZ=Australia/Sydney... the server default is America/Chicago.

Re: Crontab for different ime zones

2009-05-24 Thread GT
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 23:41 -0600, Tim Judd wrote: SNIP I propose the following: cron itself has no concept of timezone. it is 'date' that is picking up TZ and reporting as such. Cron's job is so simple is that it wakes up each minute to see if it has work to do, regardless of

Re: Crontab for different ime zones

2009-05-24 Thread GT
in subsequent minutes is APPENDED to the outfile. And now for the big DUH, I'm an idiot moment - apparently FreeBSD, Fedora and Ubuntu don't have CRON_TZ support built in. It's gotten to the stage where you have to be wary of what you find in external man pages... Cheers GT

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

2009-05-31 Thread GT
government is the problem, full stop: Caedite Eos stuff). That is to say, anyone who wants to be a moderator ought to be disqualified from doing so (that goes for anyone who wants to control anyone else). In sum, I double-plus unbellyfeel groupthink. Cheerio GT (No Microsoft products were used