Re: Crontab for different ime zones

2009-05-24 Thread GT
On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 18:45 -0600, Tim Judd wrote: > How about a jail for America/NY, and a jail for AU/Sydney? that might > work. > > > --TJ > That's a good solution, but I am still somewhat puzzled by cron's behaviour relative to what I expected from the man page. >From the man page for

Re: Crontab for different ime zones

2009-05-24 Thread Tim Judd
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 5:31 PM, GT wrote: > On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 23:41 -0600, Tim Judd wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > 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

Re: Crontab for different ime zones

2009-05-24 Thread GT
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 23:41 -0600, Tim Judd wrote: > > > > > 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 t

Re: Crontab for different ime zones

2009-05-23 Thread Tim Judd
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 9:46 PM, GT wrote: > 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=Au

Re: Crontab for different ime zones

2009-05-23 Thread Gustavo De Nardin
2009/5/24 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 d

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. G

Re: Crontab for different ime zones

2009-03-31 Thread Colin House
Mel Flynn wrote: .. > > Once a year, since you can use months and days. In fact, iirc DST changes are > known 5 years ahead (I'm sure I"ll be corrected if this is not the case) so > one can even run a yearly cronjob to change the crontab ;) > .. You might want to mention that to the Australi

Re: Crontab for different ime zones

2009-03-31 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 09:56:14 Olivier Nicole wrote: > > > Is there a way to start jobs with cron using different a time-zone > > > different from local time zone? > > > > > > I am in a TZ that has no Daylight Savings Time, and would like to > > > start a job (reccording of a web cast) in a TZ t

Re: Crontab for different ime zones

2009-03-31 Thread Olivier Nicole
> > Is there a way to start jobs with cron using different a time-zone > > different from local time zone? > > > > I am in a TZ that has no Daylight Savings Time, and would like to > > start a job (reccording of a web cast) in a TZ that has DST (so with a > > time difference that changes along the

Re: Crontab for different ime zones

2009-03-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 06:52:29 Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to start jobs with cron using different a time-zone > different from local time zone? > > I am in a TZ that has no Daylight Savings Time, and would like to > start a job (reccording of a web cast) in a TZ that has DST

Crontab for different ime zones

2009-03-30 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Is there a way to start jobs with cron using different a time-zone different from local time zone? I am in a TZ that has no Daylight Savings Time, and would like to start a job (reccording of a web cast) in a TZ that has DST (so with a time difference that changes along the year). Is there a