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Setting author when creating a new node via Cron

I’m creating a new node using hook_cron(). It all works except the node author is always set as anonymous (uid = 0). How can I assign a user to the new node, with say uid 21 for example?

Below is the node creation code that I have in a function that gets called within hook_cron().

$node = new stdClass(); $node->type = $type; $node->title = "Some node title"; $node->language = LANGUAGE_NONE; $node->uid = 21; node_object_prepare($node);  $node->body[$node->language][0]['value'] = ''; $node->body[$node->language][0]['summary'] = ''; $node->body[$node->language][0]['format'] = 'html_text';  $node->field_quote[$node->language][0]['value'] = $some_value; $node->field_quote[$node->language][0]['format'] = 'plain_text';  $node = node_submit($node); node_save($node);

Even though I state $node->uid = 21;, it always results in an anonymous author.

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