Oracle Linux Cron Job Runs at Wrong Time of Day

Hi,

Look at this link
https://www.the-art-of-web.com/system/cron-set-timezone/

Hope this helps. :-)

Regards,
    Tomas Helgi

Hi there,

Thanks for the article.  There is a lot of information in it, is the best solution just to add the "TZ=" entry in the cron file?  

-Christian

As Christian stated, adding TZ= to your crontab file fixes CRON.

This may or may not be sufficient.

To set a machine/process wide timezone, do this...

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central /etc/localtime
service cron restart
service ntpd restart

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Note: This only fixes timezone... at the server level... for new processes...

Currently active processes, do not change.

To ensure all processes run in the same timezone, a hard reboot is required.

should run at 10PM CST every night, but some odd reason, it runs at 3PM

I'm assuming the server has (displays) the correct time?

David,

Thank you, I will try your suggestion out too.  I tried the TZ= entry in the cron job file, but the file still ran at a different time yesterday.  For your suggestion, I noticed there isn't already a link enabled as /etc/localtime doesn't have anything linked to it.  If I add this link, do I have to for sure restart the server?  If so, I will schedule a time to restart it tonight as it's a production server and I can't restart it during business hours.

Thanks,
- Christian

Thank you Tomas and David.  The TZ= entry in the cron file fixed the issue, and the symbolic link command helped with the entire server.  Everything is working as it should!