I tried your crontab entry here (AEST) and it is OK - have you
altered your /etc/localtime link since cron was started? 

Anders Dinsen writes:
 > How and where do I set the timezone that cron uses? It is very annoying that
 > cron seems to execute in California, while the rest of the computer is here
 > in Denmark.
 > 
 > I tried:
 > 
 > 0       1       *       *       *       date > /dev/console
 > 
 > An exactly at 10.00 it said:
 > 
 > "Wed Sep 23 01:00:10 PST 1998" on the console.
 > 
 > Hmm.
 > 
 > Anders
 > -------------------------------------------------------------
 > Anders Dinsen                    http://www.danbbs.dk/~dinsen
 >                                  dinsen@danbbs.dk

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