Re: Question about cron timing

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, in
article <0m1ed4-s8u.ln1@xxxxxxxxxx>, Charlie Sorsby wrote:

If I edit with crontab -e, the log entry shows th
proper time stamp but for anything that cron runs, it shows a time
stamp for the hour before. Here's a short snippet from the log file:

Yes - they are different processes - as the log shows

Mar 23 14:54:00 sorsby /usr/sbin/cron[131]: (root) RELOAD (tabs/root)

Reloading the _crontab_

Does cron *not* use the same clock as the rest of the system?

Yes

How does one tell cron that we're on daylight saving time now?

Same way everyone else does - by computing the time plus the offset.

(And, yes, I did fetch the time-zone configuration file from
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007b.tar.gz and perform the
steps per:
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5102-10877-6163042.html
and, as far as I can tell, everything is running on DST -- *except*
cron.

Ah, one of the joys of living in Arizona where I don't have to put
up with this crap. Anyway, when did you replace the files, compared
to when did the cron daemon _start_ (not reload, but start)? Some
processes only look at the tzset information when they start. As a
shot, try sending cron a -HUP (kill 30592 -HUP) and see if that
cures it - and if not, try stopping and starting the daemon.

Old guy

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