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 🙏

    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 ​

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

    Good night Fedi friends!

    Show threadJP MensApr 4

    @elena what @raven667 said, and a small note that if it's important to you that a cron job on a UTC configured system runs at a particular CET/CEST time, you might have to alter the crontab definition at the next DST change.

    Of course you could set up a cron job to notify you ... 🙂

    Show threadVolker Butterstein
    @jpmens
    systemd timers can do jobs at any timezone. If that is important consider to use a timer and not crontab.
    @elena @raven667
    Apr 4 at 10:04amWeb