How to set a different time zone for a SPECIFIC task in crontab?

Question

I need to add a new task for crontab which will execute it in a different TZ than the local machine time. I succeed to do it as you can see in the example below, but the problem is that from time i changed the TZ all the jobs after refers to the new TZ

    * * * * * rubHello.sh
    0 19 * * * runKuku.sh
    CRON_TZ="Europe/Rome"
    17 13 * * * /tmp/job1.sh
    0  18 * * * /tmp/Job2.sh

in the example above, job1 runs in Europe/Rome as my request, but also job2 runs in that time which is NOT OK.

it there a way to tell crontab change the TZ for only specific task and get back to default crontab TZ for the next jobs after?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Try this (assuming that you're in Istanbul), CRON_TZ variable should be set before your cron entry :

* * * * * rubHello.sh
0 19 * * * runKuku.sh
CRON_TZ="Europe/Rome"
17 13 * * * /tmp/job1.sh
CRON_TZ="Europe/Istanbul"  
0  18 * * * /tmp/Job2.sh

OR

* * * * * rubHello.sh
0 19 * * * runKuku.sh
0  18 * * * /tmp/Job2.sh
CRON_TZ="Europe/Rome"
17 13 * * * /tmp/job1.sh