Automations / Tasks do not run at scheduled time.

[steve1673]

I've been trying to automate as many of my maintenance tasks as possible with Pulseway, but I've noticed that the scheduled start time does not correspond with the actual start time. It's not consistent though, so it doesn't appear to be a time zone issue. Here's some examples:

Sample: Cleanup Temporary Files
Weekly on Thursday starting on 29 December 2016 at 20:00

16 February 2017 21:39 Took 8 seconds Result: Successful

15 February 2017 20:00 Took 15 seconds Result: Successful

8 February 2017 20:00

Took 15 seconds

Result: Successful

1 February 2017 20:00

Took 22 seconds

Result: Successful

25 January 2017 20:00

Took 1 minute and 42 seconds

Result: Successful

18 January 2017 20:00

Took 18 seconds

Result: Successful

12 January 2017 22:06

Took 1 minute and 3 seconds

Result: Successful

11 January 2017 20:00

Took 20 seconds

Result: Successful

4 January 2017 23:56

Took 10 seconds

Result: Successful

 

Other tasks have the same issue with scheduling. While basic maintenance scripts like time syncs, temp file cleanup are not time sensitive, Other tasks are. I have my complete weekly patch and update sequence saved as scheduled tasks, and I can't use it because the scripts are not guaranteed to run during my maintenance window. 

Any ideas?

[Calin]

Hi Steve, 

I've sent you a private message.

[Paul]

Hi Steve,

This appears to be a timezone issue after all. Our engineers are working on it as we speak to resolve it. In the meantime you can change the schedule type to daily and have it repeat every 7 days:

-Paul

[steve1673]

thanks, I'll try that out. 

[steve1673]

Changing the schedule to daily did work, up until this week. It's now 15 minutes past the expected start time of the scripts and nothing has happened. (verified in the execution history). At this point I'm not sure if this is going to kick off sometime unexpected, so I'm going to need to disable scheduling again. 

Is this an issue with the DST change? Perhaps we should move everything to UTC?  

[Paul]

Thanks for letting us know. We'll investigate right away.

-Paul

[Paul]

Hey guys,

We've released an update that corrects the schedule calculation on timezones that observe Daylight Saving Time.

-Paul