[Bug 1836475] Re: update-notifier-common weekly cron job runs at the same time for all computers across the globe

[Steve Langasek]

The design of cron.weekly is such that it would be wrong to vary its
time of day, and it would be awkward to add a random sleep within the
cron.weekly script itself for this (though we have done such things in
the past).  I think we will want to move this to a systemd timer unit
instead.

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Title:
  update-notifier-common weekly cron job runs at the same time for all
  computers across the globe

Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hi,

  /etc/cron.weekly/update-notifier-common is run at the same time on all
  machines across the globe. It's putting unnecessary stress on
  Canonical's infrastructure (changelogs.ubuntu.com, specifically).
  Could we please have this job spread out over 24h ?

  And could we please SRU this change ?

  Thanks

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