[ale] rdate problem

Jim Philips jcphil at mindspring.com
Sat May 3 12:09:51 EDT 2003


On Saturday 03 May 2003 03:52 pm, Danny Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 07:47, Jim Philips wrote:
> > But when I ran rdate manually, using the same server, it always set my
> > clock to the right time. Only when I started running it by cron did I
> > have this problem.
>
> 	That's because you have TZ set in you environment, and cron doesn't!
> Try setting TZ from the cron script (if it has one, otherwise you'll
> have to inline it in the cron command line).

Never mind. It was just my local GUI clock that had a glitch. Re-setting the 
time zone did it.

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