The jobs specified in /etc/crontab are running at the wong time, why?

Question

I'm trying to get cron.daily to run just after midnight with the line below

2 0 * * * * ... (the rest is the standard verbiage)

However it is run at 07:36 and claims to be run by anacron (I don't necessarily believe that) What is the scoop, Oh yeah, my system is in the PST8PDT timexome.

Answer 1

So the problem was in fact that anacron was running the jobs, not cron. Anacron, which is installed on desktop machines, but NOT on servers by default (/etc/cron.d/anacron) runs the daily jobs at 0730.