Hi all,

Is there some way to tell cron to use GMT instead of the server's local
time?

I'd like to create a cron job which fires at midnight GMT (Greenwich Mean
Time) every night, but my server is in Utah somewhere, and its clock is on
MDT (Mountain Daylight Time)...  I know that if I set it up to fire at 18:00
MDT, that'll be 0:00 GMT, but then I'll have to remember to correct it in
October everyone shifts back to standard time :-(

-Gerry

I don't think there's any way to do what you're asking, specifically.

Here's a hack that would work, tho... You could schedule your process twice in
your crontab -- once at gmt-7 and once at gmt-6 (I think those are correct for
Mountain time), i.e. midnight GMT standard and daylight times.  Then, have your
process check to see if it's midnight GMT, and if not it should bail.  That way,
each of those cron entries will work for half of the year.

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Clever hack!  Thanks for the tip!  It's surprising that one would have to go
to such lengths, though...