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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. Why midnight? by skinfitz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm curious why it has to run at midnight? Would it be so awful if it ran at 1am local time?

    I suppose the obvious thing is to keep the local clocks at local time and set the job to run at midnight.

    Use NTP to keep the clocks in sync.