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From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner)
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Subject: Re: $TZ, crontab(1)
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Date: 22 Apr 91 21:36:24 GMT
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In-reply-to: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM's message of 21 Apr 91 17:12:00 GMT

In article <DANJ1.91Apr21121154@cbnewse.ATT.COM> Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM
writes:

| We often have several users from different timezones logging in to the
| same machine.  Too bad $TZ doesn't affect the per-user crontab(1)
| command on common UNIXes I've tried.

There is no right answer for this, since there are things that need to
be done relative to the machine's actual location, such as firing off
the uucp demon at certain times to save on long distance rates.
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Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142

Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?