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This patch adds an example for people who wish to address the multiple
timezone issue, without adding any new feature inside crontabs or cron
itself.
It modifies only the file crontab.5
Index: cron/crontab.5
===================================================================
--- cron.orig/crontab.5
+++ cron/crontab.5
@@ -361,7 +361,17 @@ configured timezone. Even if a user spe
environment variable in his
.I crontab
this will affect only the commands executed in the crontab, not the execution
-of the crontab tasks themselves.
+of the crontab tasks themselves. If one wants to specify a particular
+timezone for crontab tasks, one may check the date in the child script,
+for example:
+
+.nf
+ # m h dom mon dow command
+
+ SHELL=/bin/bash
+ TZ=Australia/Sydney
+ 0 * * * * [ "$(date +\\%H\\%M)" == "0000" ] && run_some_script
+.fi
POSIX specifies that the day of month and the day of week fields both need to
match the current time if either of them
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