john.glasson Posted February 13, 2018 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.
john.glasson Posted February 20, 2018 Author Posted February 20, 2018 After upgrading to Debian stretch this cron issue has solves itself.
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