Cron Timezone does not match system timezone

General questions
#1

Where is the timezone setting for the cron jobs? I have setup this job:

task-scheduler {
task backups {
crontab-spec "30 0 * * *"
executable {
path /config/scripts/backups.sh
}
}

Set to run at 00:30 (aka 12:30AM). I am in Mountain timezone. My system is set to mountain timezone:

~$ date
Wed 04 Jan 2023 09:54:46 PM MST

But, the cron job runs at 5:30PM MST every day. That is the time difference between me and UTC.

#3

Is it possible you are logged in as a user that has the timezone set to MST? If that is the case, it is possible that the system time zone is still set as the default of UTC? What’s the output of timedatectl?