crontab not working with raspistill and timelapse

[weisia]

I am trying to get my pi (zero) make some timelapse photo's at set times. I am using a fresh install of Stretch-lite and the instructions for using raspistill and cron from this site ( https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... melapse.md and https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... melapse.md )

I have made the timelapse.sh executable with chmod +x and tested it: the script works fine, but I can't get the script working using crontab. Crontab is running, the camera is connected and the script generates the correct output. Can anyone help me?

The timelpase.sh:

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#!/bin/bash
# script for creating a timelapse video with rapistill and store it in /home/pi$
# START AND END TIME ARE PUT IN CRONTAB
# the webpages used as sourced for information are listed at the end of this fi$
DATE=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H:%:M:%S")
sudo raspistill -o /home/pi/picam/$DATE.jpg 

part of crontab:

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# sunrise: at every minute past every hour from 5 through 8
# sunset: at every minute past every hour from  18 through 21
* 5-8 * * * /home/pi/timelapse.sh 2>&1
* 18-21 * * * /home/pi/timelapse.sh 2>&1

[pcmanbob]

Try running your scripts like this and then look at the file log.txt to see if there are any errors

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# sunrise: at every minute past every hour from 5 through 8
# sunset: at every minute past every hour from  18 through 21
* 5-8 * * * /home/pi/timelapse.sh >> /home/pi/log.txt 2>&1
* 18-21 * * * /home/pi/timelapse.sh >> /home/pi/log.txt 2>&1

dont forget cron runs in a different environment than the command line you need to include full paths to any files or programs called.

[weisia]

Solved! Thank you very much! The log file pointed me to the error: a typo in the DATE format.