I have a working prototype which I have documented here:
http://blogs.sun.com/chrisg/entry/mutliple_time_zones_for_cron
Since this is not part of my day job, I'm requesting a sponsor despite
being a Sun employee so I can do this on my own time.
--chris
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Roland Mainz wrote:
> Darren J Moffat wrote:
>> Chris Gerhard wrote:
>>> I have a working prototype which I have documented here:
>>>
>>> http://blogs.sun.com/chrisg/entry/mutliple_time_zones_for_cron
>>>
>>> Since this is not part of my day
Don Cragun wrote:
> Roland,
> Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
>
> Chris,
> The format shown in
> http://blogs.sun.com/chrisg/entry/mutliple_time_zones_for_cron is not
> allowed by the current standards. The standards say that entries in
> crontab files are of three types:
>
Thanks Don,
Comments in line
Don Cragun wrote:
>> However that could leads you to interpreting comments which would be bad.
>
> Agreed. I was not suggesting that this exact form is a good idea; only
> that the standards allow comments in crontab files.
O.k.
However the
http://www.opengroup.o
Don Cragun wrote:
>
> Note that if installing an application adds a crontab entry to root's
> crontab file, you probably don't want that entry to be shifted several
> hours by a prior non-standard entry in the original crontab file.
Ah well there are already lots of assumptions here. The first b
While researching this I came across this thread from 2005 which has a
similar conversation.
Titled "extended crontab syntax" in the rfe list:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=2941&start=0&tstart=0
However that thread appears to have stalled when a whole new scheduling
fram
