Cron job timezone not synch with local time

[Roz]

How to synchronize crontab timezone to tzdata. I've run dpkg-reconfigure tzdata and set my timezone to America/new_York but crontab -e still running 5 hour behind e.g. to run cron job at 8 am I have to set

0 3 * * * echo test > /home/test.log




root@pve:/etc# pveversion -v
proxmox-ve: 6.3-1 (running kernel: 5.4.73-1-pve)
pve-manager: 6.3-2 (running version: 6.3-2/22f57405)
pve-kernel-5.4: 6.3-1
pve-kernel-helper: 6.3-1
pve-kernel-5.4.73-1-pve: 5.4.73-1
ceph-fuse: 12.2.11+dfsg1-2.1+b1
corosync: 3.0.4-pve1
criu: 3.11-3
glusterfs-client: 5.5-3
ifupdown: 0.8.35+pve1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.3-1
libjs-extjs: 6.0.1-10
libknet1: 1.16-pve1
libproxmox-acme-perl: 1.0.5
libproxmox-backup-qemu0: 1.0.2-1
libpve-access-control: 6.1-3
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.0-3
libpve-common-perl: 6.2-6
libpve-guest-common-perl: 3.1-3
libpve-http-server-perl: 3.0-6
libpve-storage-perl: 6.3-1
libqb0: 1.0.5-1
libspice-server1: 0.14.2-4~pve6+1
lvm2: 2.03.02-pve4
lxc-pve: 4.0.3-1
lxcfs: 4.0.3-pve3
novnc-pve: 1.1.0-1
proxmox-backup-client: 1.0.5-1
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.1-1
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 2.4-3
pve-cluster: 6.2-1
pve-container: 3.3-1
pve-docs: 6.3-1
pve-edk2-firmware: 2.20200531-1
pve-firewall: 4.1-3
pve-firmware: 3.1-3
pve-ha-manager: 3.1-1
pve-i18n: 2.2-2
pve-qemu-kvm: 5.1.0-7
pve-xtermjs: 4.7.0-3
qemu-server: 6.3-1
smartmontools: 7.1-pve2
spiceterm: 3.1-1
vncterm: 1.6-2
zfsutils-linux: 0.8.5-pve1

 

[ph0x]

This is how it's done:

https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-set-or-change-timezone-on-debian-10/

 

[Roz]

This is how it's done:

https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-set-or-change-timezone-on-debian-10/

Went over the link and here is my result which all looks correct however I still have to set crontab -e, 5 hr behind to synch to Local time.

root@pve:~# timedatectl
Local time: Sat 2021-07-24 11:25:40 EDT
Universal time: Sat 2021-07-24 15:25:40 UTC
RTC time: Sat 2021-07-24 15:25:39
Time zone: America/New_York (EDT, -0400)
System clock synchronized: yes
NTP service: active
RTC in local TZ: no

root@pve:~# ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Jul 24 09:56 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York

root@pve:~# date
Sat 24 Jul 2021 11:28:02 AM EDT

 

[ph0x]

Did you restart cron afterwards?

 

[Roz]

Did you restart cron afterwards?

Restarted the pve and seem to work great. Thank you for your help!!