> On 21 Mar 2023, at 08:52, Mike Wright <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 3/19/23 21:19, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> Dear friends, >> I have a bunch of entries in my crontab, all doing different things at different times. These times are picked up by the computer clock. >> However, one particular task (downloading weather maps) would benefit if it was set to download using a clock that does not spring forward and fall back. This is because these maps appear to be released according to GMT/UTC and so setting the time according to the local clock does not quite work. (I am aware that I could set my cron job to be at a specific hour later than the actual during standard time, but I figured that this would be a good opportunity to get to know of such a possibility, if such exists.) >> So, how do I make a single entry that uses GMT or UTC, in my crontab? While also using the local time for the other tasks on crontab? > > That sounds ideal for a systemd timer since it has native support for UTC. You'd need a .service to fetch the weather maps and a .timer to trigger the .service. As far as systemd goes that is pretty basic. Yep defaults to UTC but allows you to specify the time zone in the OnCalendar property. This is very useful. Barry > > Everything else would stay under cron. > > Mike Wright > _______________________________________________ > 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 > Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
