Why Your Cron Job Fires at the Wrong Time: IST, UTC and the Midnight Day Shift
I scheduled a job for 9 PM IST and it ran at 2:30 AM. Cron uses the server's timezone, and most servers run UTC. Here's how the offset, the ...
Nov 3, 2026
6 min
Your cron job fires on the wrong day
There is no single cron standard. Eight dialects disagree on Sunday's number, alias support, and what the sixth field means — and the failur...
Jul 30, 2026
5 min