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by **godfrey_..** » Sat, 24 Jul 1999 04:00:00

Running RedHat 6.0 on a machine, I am faced with the following -

use date to check date, shows correct date and time
use linuxconf and timezone, also show correct date, time and zone

but ...
cron seems to be out by 8 hours!
IE - when the time shows 9am, cron is just running processes set for 1am

this may have something to do with pacific time and UK time (where I am)
but how do I find what setting is wrong?

Ideas please.

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by **Leonard Even** » Sun, 25 Jul 1999 04:00:00

> Running RedHat 6.0 on a machine, I am faced with the following -

> use date to check date, shows correct date and time
> use linuxconf and timezone, also show correct date, time and zone

> but ...
> cron seems to be out by 8 hours!
> IE - when the time shows 9am, cron is just running processes set for 1am

> this may have something to do with pacific time and UK time (where I am)
> but how do I find what setting is wrong?

> Ideas please.

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Check what /etc/localtime points to. It is a link to what
your local time zone should be. If it doesn't point to
the correct time zone, remove the symbolic link and remake
it. For UK I assume the way to make the symbolic link would
be
ln -s /usr/lib/zoneinfo/Greenwich /etc/localtime

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CRON has the wrong time - help please

CRON has the wrong time - help please

CRON has the wrong time - help please