[Dxspider-support] crontab not honouring LOCALE = LOCAL

[IZ2LSC]

ops.....I was not aware of that param.

Here is working fine

11Apr2025 at 16:47:00 (cron) cron: LOCALTIME 47 18 11 4 5 -> doing
'run_cmd('load/badip')'
11Apr2025 at 16:47:00 (cron) DXCron::run_cmd: load/badip
11Apr2025 at 16:47:00 (cron) DXCron::cmd out: load/badip: added 9205 entries

UTC time is 16:47
Local time is 18:47

Andrea

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On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM Keith, G6NHU <g6nhu at me.com> wrote:

> That’s not how I read it from Changes:
>
> 3. Add the ability to set the (time) locale to UTC or LOCALTIME by adding
>    the string LOCALE = UTC or LOCALE = LOCAL(TIME)? to your local crontab
>
>    NOTE: this will affect ALL timings in both the system as well as your
>    local crontabs. Changing the LOCALE will make no difference to the
> system
>    crontab other than using localtime rather than UTC. Which is fine by me.
> On 11 Apr 2025 at 14:32 +0100, IZ2LSC via Dxspider-support <
> dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>, wrote:
>
> "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.
>
> a.
>
>
> -->
>
>
> 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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