On Tue Mar21'23 10:47:47PM, Barry wrote: > From: Barry <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 22:47:47 +0000 > To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: OT: is it possible to have one cron job follow GMT/UTC? > > > > > 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. Thanks, so no cron job? And, my apologies, but where can I get an example? > > 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 Thanks again! Ranjan _______________________________________________ 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
