john.glasson Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 I run ARMBIAN 5.38 stable Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 4.14.18-sunxi on an Orange Pi Zero. Cron and its timezone are causing me problems: it's initially one hour out - all root crons run an hour early. If I run dpkg-reconfigure tzdata and set the correct region/place, cron then runs correctly until the next reboot. I can see no difference between the localtime and timezone files before and after the reconfigure (strangely, the localtime link is replaced by a file following a reconfigure - this is different from my other Armbian machines). I can work around the problem as follows: following a start/reboot I then restart the cron service - the cron timing thereafter works correctly. I guess there may be a issue with the systemd cron.service - perhaps it starts the service too early in sequence? Any suggestions/explanations gratefully received. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john.glasson Posted February 20, 2018 Author Share Posted February 20, 2018 After upgrading to Debian stretch this cron issue has solves itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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