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The crontab command does not work properly in my Linux instance. Why?

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You may be encountering issues with crontab because your instance is set on a different time zone than the one where you are located.

By default, OUTSCALE instances are set on UTC / GMT time. To specify another time zone (for example, Paris time), you can run the following commands in a terminal of your instance:

# Set TimeZone
$> timedatectl set-timezone "Europe/Paris"

# Restart Related Services
$> /etc/init.d/cron restart
$> /etc/init.d/rsyslog restart

# Check the setting variable
$> cat /etc/timezone

In the above example, you can replace Europe/Paris with: 

  • America/New_York
  • America/Los_Angeles
  • Asia/Tokyo

For more information about available time zones, see the the list of tz database time zones on Wikipedia.

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