When does a cron job activate?

[Jory]

If it I set it up for, say, 12:00am on september 8, when will it activate? at midnight of my timezone or the server's?

[AndrewGlow]

Hello Jory,

Cron job will be activated at midnight according to the server's timezone.

You can check server time by running "date" command from CLI.

[Jory]

What's cli? and what's the full command? Thanks for the quick replies, btw.

[AndrewGlow]

CLI is command line interface. You need to connect to the server using PuTTY (via SSH protocol) and run "date" command to see time:

command:

date

Result:

Sun Sep 7 15:07:38 EDT 2014