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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#

By danijeljames

Before you bark “Google” or some other reference, I have tried to get my head around this for the past 8 months.

I want to know, who makes a vanilla UNIX. Not a flavour of UNIX.

…..vanilla, plain, boring, original current UNIX.

I understand that all these different companies make versions or “flavours” of UNIX, but where is the AT&T/Bell Labs version of UNIX?

I’m not trying to develop my own version or anything, but where does the modern day version come from? The last time I asked this question, I was told that BSD UNIX or SOLARIS are the only current vanilla flavours, but I can’t find BSD UNIX. I can find FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD FireflyBSD.

Can anyone give me a dumb persons answer so I can just have peace of mind please.

Thank you.

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