FreeBSD 6.0 cron is running on GMT

[John-Mark Gurney]

Brett Glass wrote this message on Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 22:27 -0700:
> At 09:14 PM 11/26/2005, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>  
> >On Sat, 2005-Nov-26 15:07:26 -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
> >>By the way, the "date" command does report the correct time. It's cron
> >>that seems to be getting the time wrong.
> >
> >You haven't accidently created a line that looks like 'TZ=' in the
> >crontab have you?
> 
> Nope.
> 
> >Is this affecting all users or just one?
> 
> All.
> 
> I am wondering if I shouldn't just redo everything in the system that
> has to do with time zones and time keeping (deleting files and re-creating
> them if need be), reboot, and see what happens. I've never seen a good
> explanation of all of the sysctl variables, environment variables, files,
> etc. that control it, especially since (as I understand it) the responsibility
> has been shifted from the kernel to libraries. Is there a summary out there?

/etc/localtime contains the timezone that is the default when TZ isn't
set...  if /etc/wall_cmos_clock exists then the RTC of the machine
matches that of /etc/localtime, if it doesn't exist, the RTC is in
GMT...  adjkerntz(8) contains pointers to these files...

as far as I know there are no sysctl's that deal with timezone...

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