switching timezone within crontab?

[Noel Jones]

On 3/3/06, Danny Howard <dannyman at toldme.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> So, we have systems running in Eastern and Pacific time zones as their
> local time, not to mention DST.  So, we like to schedule a few things
> with UTC to save our sanity.
>
> If a system is not running UTC as its locale, but I want to schedule a
> UTC cron job in crontab, is it sufficient to put a little:
> TZ=UTC
> Right before the job?
>

Pretty sure the above will only set the timezone for your job, and not
alter the schedule time.  But I don't know a solution to your problem.

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Noel Jones