Re: cron time is not same as system time

Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> Is the system clock set to UTC?
> $ cat /etc/default/rcS
>
> You should see a line
> UTC=yes.

A good point. It currently reads:

UTC=no

> I don't know if this matters, and with a tz of London it shouldn't
> account for 5 hrs.

Agreed. It's certainly a very bizarre problem, and one which I have a) not encountered before b) have no rational explanation.. :(

> Is 09:45 the time the process starts

Bang on, 09:45:01 it starts. You can see the process start and is written to the cron.log output at the same time. Though, it's recorded as starting at 04:45, which is clearly very wrong.

I'll put a change in to switch the box to UTC, if the list things it would be a prudent step?

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