XF 1.4 "Daily Clean Up" and "Record Daily Statistics"

[imthebest]

Hi,

I see that the default schedule for these cronjobs is as follows:

• Record Daily Statistics - daily, 00:30
• Daily Clean Up - daily, 03:00

The problem is that my forum uses GMT -5 so what I have been doing is that after every upgrade I changed both to:

• Record Daily Statistics - daily, 05:00 (so it runs at 00:00)
• Daily Clean Up - daily, 05:02 (so it runs at 00:02)

The question is: do I need to keep doing this after every upgrade?

Thanks,
Super120

 

[Mike]

Yes, you would need to. There isn't really a reason to change them though. It doesn't affect how they function.

 

[imthebest]

The reason why I'm changing them is because I think that for example the "Record Daily Statistics" by default would assume that my forum starts a day at 19:30 so it would report my daily statistics measuring every day from 19:30 to 19:29 instead of 00:30 to 00:29.

Or is the system aware of the timezone?

 

[Mike]

The day period for the stats is always based on GMT, regardless of when the cron runs (whose runtime itself is based on GMT).