Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂Apr 3

A very #MySoCalledSudoLife day.​ This morning I:

  • Created my first cron job (I will look into systemd timers this weekend, just in case)

  • I bought a Heltec v3 kit - so I can try off-grid mesh communication when I'm at my parents' in Italy later this month

    • Thanks for all your help and advice with cron jobs! I really appreciate πŸ™

    Show threadElena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂Apr 3

    I just learned a couple of minutes ago that "CRON jobs in general run in UTC time" - so 9pm for my cron job means 11pm Paris time β€‹

    I guess I'll find out tomorrow morning if it worked (I'm too tired now to tweak it) πŸ₯²

    Good night Fedi friends!

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    @elena it should depend and run depending on /etc/locatime. So if the Cloud is above UTC+4 and you want to run stuff related to UTC-2, you’ll have to do the Maths πŸ˜†

    In some case, it may be possible to set some sort of TZ variables. But man page is required there.

    Apr 3 at 9:17pmWeb
    Show threadElena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂Apr 4
    @joel it was UTC time indeed... I just checked this morning and the cron job worked... but at 11pm (instead of 9pm). I just tweaked the file subtracting 2 hours πŸ˜…β€‹
    Show threadGrumpy Old Techie πŸ•ŠοΈApr 5
    @elena @joel It is important to read β€˜man 5 crontab’. Linux distros often use different implementations of cron with extra functionality to the original Vixie cron. Mac and BSD are closer to the simpler original from the 1980s. The nice part about unix like systems is that you have choice and you can install the cron you want e.g. anacron for systems that are not always on (laptops) so your cron jobs will run when the system is switched on.
    Show threadElena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂Apr 5
    @grumpyoldtechie thank you for the helpful insights πŸ™