SOLARIS 9 Zone :

date command in crontab shows delayed(One Hour) output

Hi folks,
the date command shows the correct date and time, How ever, if the date command executed through crontab in any form of scrip the output shows as one hour delayed, similar to date -u..

Can some one help in this..
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Date command perfectly shows

judi:root:/tmp# date
Fri Feb 15 15:08:03 MET 2013
judi:root:/tmp#

The script used to get the output to test.out

judi:root:/tmp# more test.sh
#!/usr/bin/ksh
DT=`date '+%y%m%d-%H:%M'`
LOG=/tmp/test.out
echo $DT >> $LOG
judi:root:/tmp#

the cron entry used..

* * * * * /tmp/test.sh


output of the script execution (delayed for one hour)
judi:root:/tmp# more test.out
130215-14:03
130215-14:04
130215-14:05
130215-14:06
130215-14:07
130215-14:08
judi:root:/tmp#

judi:root:/tmp# date
Fri Feb 15 15:08:10 MET 2013
judi:root:/tmp#

Moderator's Comments:

Please use CODE tags. Thank you!

Setting the expected timezone in the script called from cron should workaround the issue, eg:

#!/bin/ksh
export TZ=Europe/Paris
DT=`date '+%y%m%d-%H:%M'`
LOG=/tmp/test.out
echo $DT >> $LOG

Thanks for your reply jlliagre
the time zone is properly set and even server had a reboot after the time zone settings..

Did you modify the test.sh script as I suggested ?

yes I modified the test.sh, Now the output is perfect, still I am afraid this cannot be advised to all users and application cronjobs right ?

The clock is correct, the timezone setting is not for some reason. Please provide more clues/evidences.

Sorry , I dont have any clue and totally confused.. Please be more specific on what else we can check..
Also I did not find any thing interesting (about time settings) in /etc/.profile..