Crontab schedule in different timezones

Question

I would like to schedule my tasks in EST but I want the actual task to run under the default system timezone.

Whats the best way of doing this?

score 27 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 03 '20 at 17:21

27

Just set in your crontab file variable TZ=Some/Where You can set TZ several times to have separate jobs rund in separate timezones. For example:

TZ=UTC
* 7 * * * root date | mail root
TZ=CEST
* 7 * * * root date | mail root
TZ=PCT
* 7 * * * root date | mail root

at 7:00 UTC (or timezone you have cron daemon run) three jobs will run, but each have its own TZ variable.

edited Jul 03 '20 at 17:21

b-jazz

answered Mar 28 '12 at 12:32

datacompboy

score 19 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 13 '20 at 13:07

19

With the CentOS/RHEL version of cron just add the line:

CRON_TZ=America/New_York

This will run the schedule according to New York time but the task will run in the default time zone.

edited Sep 13 '20 at 13:07

maxschlepzig

answered Mar 29 '12 at 11:35

DD.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 28 '12 at 10:34

0

You can run a separate instance of cron with a different TZ environment variable, or just learn to add or subtract a few hours.

answered Mar 28 '12 at 10:34

womble

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