Problem: System is running in UTC time zone and I would like to set user cron entries in local time (Australia/Melbourne). It is annoying modifying your cron jobs every 6 months due to daylight savings changes.
Resolution: Install fcron and get time zone aware cronjobs
Download the Dev version of fcron from http://fcron.free.fr/
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | wget http://fcron.free.fr/archives/fcron-3.3.1.src.tar.gztar -xzvf fcron-3.3.1.src.tar.gzcd fcron-3.3.1./configure --sysconfdir=/etc # put the config files in /etcmake# by default it will install binaries to /usr/localsudo make install# answer the questions basically say yes to adding fcron user / groups and install systemd service |
As a user
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 | fcrontab -l2022-02-23 02:03:03 INFO listing myusers's fcrontab&timezone(Australia/Melbourne) 17 19 * * * echo `date` >> /tmp/date2# check /tmp/date2 after 5:17PM cat /tmp/date2# outputTue Feb 8 19:17:00 AEDT 2022Wed Feb 9 19:17:00 AEDT 2022Thu Feb 10 19:17:00 AEDT 2022Fri Feb 11 19:17:00 AEDT 2022Sat Feb 12 19:17:00 AEDT 2022Sun Feb 13 19:17:00 AEDT 2022Mon Feb 14 19:17:00 AEDT 2022Tue Feb 15 19:17:00 AEDT 2022Wed Feb 16 19:17:00 AEDT 2022Thu Feb 17 19:17:00 AEDT 2022Fri Feb 18 19:17:00 AEDT 2022Sat Feb 19 19:17:00 AEDT 2022Sun Feb 20 19:17:00 AEDT 2022Mon Feb 21 19:17:00 AEDT 2022Tue Feb 22 19:17:00 AEDT 2022 |
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