On 2020-05-11 20:33, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > The biggie is no DATE: header. And the MTA can only apply a DATE: header for the time it received the cron output. The time the cron task started is lost. This is a bug in cron from day 1, it seems and I will be submitting this whole shebang as a bug. Why not just have your crontab call a script? #!/bin/sh echo Start Time `date` rsync ....... echo End Time `date` -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx