[Dxspider-support] crontab not honouring LOCALE =?utf-8?Q?=3D_?=LOCAL

Keith, G6NHU g6nhu at me.com
Fri Apr 11 10:32:21 BST 2025


Yup, correct, I’ve asked for local time.

So when the crontab time says run something at 22:42, I expect it to run at 22:42 local time, whereas it ran at 23:42.

73 Keith.
On 11 Apr 2025 at 09:05 +0100, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>, wrote:
> I’d forgotten it could do that. I’ll check the code when I get back home, but you have asked for local time, rather than UTC which is the default.
>
> Dirk G1TLH
>
> > On 11 Apr 2025, at 08:51, Keith, G6NHU via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > I have LOCALE = LOCAL in my crontab.
> >
> > I have Kin’s update script set to run at 22:42
> >
> > 42 22 * * 1,2,3,4,5 run_cmd("check_build Y 5")
> >
> > However, it ran and updated last night at 23:42
> >
> > I can see other files that I download using crontab appear to be an hour out as well.
> >
> > 73 Keith.
> >
> >
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