[jrockway]

I know of someone that set their cron server to a weird time zone (not representative of the office or computer's physical location) so that when someone told them "it needs to run at 9:00", they could punch that into the crontab and the results would be ready before 9:00, even if there was maybe a transient error or something.

I am not recommending this.

[xyzzy_plugh]

The time between midnight UTC and 9 AM Pacific is a magical, horrible window during which billions of dollars of servers throughout the world heat up producing mundane reports.