cron and GMT time?

[Jim Jarocki <jarocki@startribune.com>]

i have a recently installed debian box that i'll be using for collecting 
various logs.  after setting up some cron jobs to automate this, they are 
not running when i expected.  if i have cron entries that look like:

@midnight /opt/admin/bin/swatch_newday.pl >> /dev/null

 or

0 0 * * * /opt/admin/bin/swatch_newday.pl >> /dev/null

the jobs run at 19:00 rather than at midnight.

the date on the system appears to be set correctly and with the right time 
zone (minneapolis, mn, USA):

[jarocki@king]/home/jarocki: date
Wed Aug  2 11:58:58 CDT 2006

and it looks like the time zone is set correctly too:

[jarocki@king]/etc: cat /etc/timezone
US/Central

so it appears that cron is interpreting my crontab with GMT time perhaps. 
now i could just schedule my midnite job via "0 5 * * * /my/script" but 
i'd prefer just to have cron act how i would expect.

anything obvious that i'm doing wrong or that i should check?  or perhaps 
the GMT thing is by design and i should just deal with it.  thanx in 
advance for any help/ideas.

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Jim Jarocki
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