Cronjobs running at wrong times

[domhandy]

Hi

All my cronjobs (user's and system's) are running 5 hours after the time they are supposed to. So, for instance, it is starting the backup at 6am instead of 1am. Same happens with cPanel cronjobs too. I've looked in the crontabs and they show the correct running time (eg, 0 1 * * * /scripts/cpbackup).

The server time is Europe/Guernsey (London), and shows the correct time everywhere (on emails, in 'uptime' via shell). Any clues, as it's stumped me! It's almost as if, even though I have changed the server time to GMT, it actually thinks it is EST (the server is actually based in New Jersey).

Thanks

Dom

 

[PWSowner]

Does the server time link in WHM give you the correct time? (your time)

 

[domhandy]

Yes, it does. It shows GMT (./Europe/Guernsey), and I've synced the machine time.

 

[domhandy]

It seems the cron service doesn't automatically get restarted when you make a timezone change in WHM. This really should be done by WHM

service crond restart