Cron schedule is off on execution time

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@Support

This may already be solved in a version already, but just in case I found a bug in 2.10.2.
I have not updated to the latest yet, so if it’s already solved, thank you!

I have a cron schedule for a job set to run every Monday at 6AM.
However, it ran at 2AM.

You can see the scheduled time shows correctly, but the next execution says 2AM.

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Here is my settings:

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Product: PowerShell Universal
Version: 2.10.2
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Hi @Mike27,

I think this could be by design as the job was set to use default time (UTC) but the server is located in a timezone that is 4 hours earlier. I think if you try this again with the timezone set to match the server then it should work as expected.

Please let us know.

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Hello @DataTraveler ,

Is this a new setting? I have never had an issue with Cron scheduling until recently. I will check my other Cron schedules. I would think ‘System Default’ would be tied to the time zone the server is set to? I tried to adjust the time zone in the schedule and got an error:

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Here is my settings:

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Thank you,
Mike

EDIT: It looks like it may have been there awhile and I not notice, but before it was defaulting to my current time zone. Now after a specific update, it looks to be using System Default, however, I am unable to change it via the GUI. I did try to adjust it via the schedules.ps1 by changing it to ‘America/New_York’ and that worked. Not sure why I cannot adjust via the GUI.

Can we add an option in settings for default time zone please?

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@mike27, I believe I’ve seen the issue you’re referring to (where the timezone setting shows as Default even though it is not) but I am not able to recreate it. It might only happen once per install and I would need to install fresh PSU to recreate it. However, it is just a display error. I do remember when I was seeing it that checking with Get-PSUSchedule showed the timezone was set correctly (despite the UI showing it as default).

I’ll see if I can recreate the display issue on a fresh install. Could @adam kindly advise about the intention of the “System Default” selection in the Timezone property of a PSU schedule? I am assuming it was intended to be UTC (GMT) but not sure.

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Hello @DataTraveler & @adam

I may not have worded it correctly.
Definitely seems that ‘System Default’ is UCT (GMT) time. I am wondering if this is something new, as my old cron jobs I never set the time zone and it was set to ‘America/New York’. It would be nice if we can change the ‘System Default’ to a different time zone or adjust the default settings for jobs.

The other issue was I was not able to change the time zone through the GUI. I had to edit schedules.ps1 and it took a second to reflect those changes.

Thank you!

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@DataTraveler - Can you open an issue for not being able to change the timezones via the GUI? That shouldn’t be happening.

I might consider opening an issue for the System Default timezone as well. It’s confusing that it’s not actually using the system default. I think if we default to UTC we should probably just say that in the UI.

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