[ubuntu-in] Referencing Time

[Jkhatri]

On Tuesday 15 February 2011 01:30 PM, Moz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I administer a website, which is hosted on a shared plan. The time on
> the server is variable and I can not run cron jobs at proper time
> using the date command in my shell scripts. NTP support seems not to
> be installed. It is a Red Hat OS server. I would like to know if there
> is some other way to take a reference time. For example, emails sent
> from my local computer which includes a special date string or
> something like that, which can be referenced by the shell script? I
> use Ubuntu Lucid.
>
> I do not have authority to set date/time on the server, and I have
> tried to have the admin change the time, but it only makes things
> worse as the changes are not as expected.
>
> Can you suggest a way to run cron jobs at fixed times without using
> the system date and time?
>
> Regards
>
> Moz
>
I've come across this kind of problem ... once ( with blue host web 
hosting ) ... found this[1]

[1] https://www.bluehost.com/cgi/help/519


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