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Managing Batch Jobs for Several Time Zones?

Posted by Cliff on from the midnight-run dept.

sporty asks: "I have one machine, a unix box, that serves many time zones at once. Because of this, everything is stored in GMT. Even the system clock is set relative to GMT. The problem is determining when midnite is. I need to run certain jobs, via cron or similar, so that something runs at midnite in that timezone. Anyone have this situation before?"

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  1. Please, geeks of the world by Anonymous+Cowdog · · Score: 5, Informative

    Don't know if this advice applies to this guy or not, because he might truly have a need to run at exactly midnight. But please, run your cron jobs at randomly chosen times, instead of exactly on the hour. That way we can spread the load (machine and network) better. Thank you, have a nice day.