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

[Keith, G6NHU]

I can absolutely say it’s not working fine here.

The update last night ran at 23:42 instead of 22:42, I can tell that from the uptime.   I update all Kin’s scripts automatically and they show an hour later than expected.

To test this, I moved my update_ip.pl in the cluster crontab to 15:20 this afternoon and it ran at 16:20 local time.

73 Keith.
On 11 Apr 2025 at 17:50 +0100, IZ2LSC via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>, wrote:
> 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
>
> -->
>
>
> 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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