Re: cron is now using some mystery timezone for me.

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Chris Ross wrote:

> On Mon, 17 May 2010 12:38:16 -0700, Scott Ellis said:
> > Hisashi T Fujinaka said:
> > > My daily script, which should run at 3:15 PDT, is now running at
> > > 10:15PDT, which is 1815GMT, I think.
> >
> > Whew, I thought it was just me seeing this!  I couldn't understand why I
> > was getting emails about my daily jobs in the middle of the afternoon!
>
>  This is still the case for me on my -current machine.  I'm reinstalling from 
> last night's -current now.
>
>  In my case, my machine's /etc/localtime is to US/Eastern, and the time is 
> accurate.  At then end of the system boot process, I see:
>
> Starting inetd.
> Starting cron.
> Sat May 15 14:48:53 EDT 2010
>
> NetBSD/i386 (skaro.distal.com) (console)
>
> login:
>
>  But, I'm still getting my /etc/daily and such output at 4 hours after the time 
> in crontab.  Noting the original email message about running in PDT (GMT -0700) 
> running at +7 hours, there's clearly a relationship there.  (I'm in EDT, 
> GMT-0400)
>
>  I saw some changes to cron come by recently.  Has this been fixed?  After I 
> finish loading from last-nights sources, I'll set up some cron jobs and see if 
> I can evoke it again.

Christos fixed it while ago for me. Did you update cron? I remember
doing a "crontab -e" and having it update the crontab, too.

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