Here’s another way of setting your server’s timezone. See all the options under North America.

<pre lang="bash">
timedatectl list-timezones | grep -i America

Set timezone.

<pre lang="bash">
timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York

To check.

<pre lang="bash">
date

Restart cron if needed.

<pre lang="bash">
systemctl restart cron.service