[Dxspider-support] crontab not honouring LOCALE = LOCAL

[IZ2LSC]

"LOCALE = LOCAL"  is just for setting the format of text, numbers, date,
not for the timezone.
In addition I think that the spider crontab is a little different from the
system crontab, i.e. the */n schedule notation is not working.

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On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM Keith, G6NHU via Dxspider-support <
dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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