Does anyone know of a good alternative to cron? I would like something that can be run with different time zones.
You may consider Quartz (a java-based solution), that can take advantage of Date build in the appropriate TimeZone.
For the future readers, consider Chronos, developed and open sourced by AirBnB. check it out at http://nerds.airbnb.com/introducing-chronos/
Just for the sake of completeness, cronie supports the CRON_TZ variable.
mecano
MacOS X has replaced cron, at, xinet, and watchdog with open source launchd (Wikipedia). Process properties are described in a XML file, which allows passing arguments. Switching timezones should trivial.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/288349/alternative-to-cron