Comment 7 for bug 486558

I've just been bitten by this as well.

I'm not altogether sure that this file should be obsolete as there is no alternative to the TZ (timezone) option. I think the bug should be that this file should still be used.

I want to run cron in a different timezone to my own and as far as I can see there is no alternative method for achieving this. Since timezones change between summer and winter time at different times of the year it is not very convenient to me to use local time as I have to manually adjust 4 times a year for clock changes.