On Friday 29 January 2010 09:02:21 Sthu Deus wrote:
> I can not set up cron. This is what I have as I tested it (I tried for
>  daily only for now):
> 
> At 3:40 I put into /etc/crontab:
> 50 3     * * *    root  test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || (cd / && run-parts
>  --report /etc/cron.daily )
> 
> in /etc/cron.daily I put file A with single line:
> date > /tmp/cron-ran
> 
> At 3:50 I have checked /tmp looking for A file - but it is not.

On many Debian systems cron jobs are run at GMT time.
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