cronjob time is out by 1 hour

[ilium007]

Hi guys - I have a scheduled reboot that is supposed to happen at 5:00am but happens at 6:00 instead.

NTP time is correct. I am in Brisbane, Australia and we have no daylight saving but our southern states do. Whilst I have selected +10:00 Brisbane in the UTC offset window and the output of the 'date' command is correct , my scheuled reboot happens each day at 6:00am. Is it possible that there is a daylight saving setting somewhere ?

The "cru l" output is:

* 5 * * * reboot #scheduled_reboot#

 

[ilium007]

Hi guys - I have a scheduled reboot that is supposed to happen at 5:00am but happens at 6:00 instead.

NTP time is correct. I am in Brisbane, Australia and we have no daylight saving but our southern states do. Whilst I have selected +10:00 Brisbane in the UTC offset window and the output of the 'date' command is correct , my scheuled reboot happens each day at 6:00am. Is it possible that there is a daylight saving setting somewhere ?

The "cru l" output is:

* 5 * * * reboot #scheduled_reboot#

I think I found it. The cru command should have been:

cru a scheduled_reboot "0 5 * * * reboot"

Without the 0 it would have been rebooting every 5 hours and given it was rebooting at 6am that means I would have last rebooted the router at 11pm which would be about right. I got confused when the reboot was happening at 6am thinking it was a daylight saving issue when in fact it was my cron mistake !