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mkesperyesterday at 2:47 PM2 repliesview on HN

There's another big feature: You're not relying on the time zone to which the server was set (like with cron) but can explicitly specify a time zone:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...


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6031769yesterday at 3:26 PM

Of course you can do this trivially in cron as well. It is what the CRON_TZ variable is for.

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eichinyesterday at 7:37 PM

hmm, when did that get added? Last time I checked, the only timezone you could specify was UTC (which was one more than cron supported, but still insufficient.)