so it appears that logrotate is executed by /etc/cron.daily/logrotate. this must mean that the daily cron jobs are being started at approximately 4am.
Correct.
my question is: why are they not starting at 12am and how can i adjust this?
They don't start at midnight in order to avoid having *everything* start up at midnight. Remember that cron.hourly runs every hour on the hour, daily stuff runs at around 4am, weekly stuff at another time, etc. You don't want to bog down your system with maintenance, so it gets distributed this way.
You can change it either by changing the time cron.daily is called, or by moving the logrotate job out of cron.daily and into its own cron job at whatever time you prefer. I would do the second one, personally.
Cheers,
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