Cron time in scheduler

[bala4901 (Markus Bala)]

I found a funny issue in schedule.

Example:
The server is setup with UTC time.
But the client setup using Asia/jakarta locale.

When setting the time in schedule, it follow the time of Server (UTC) instead follow the client locale.

May I know, this is correct?

Best regards,

[ced (Cédric Krier)]

@bala4901

When setting the time in schedule, it follow the time of Server (UTC) instead follow the client locale.

What do you mean by “following”? Please could you give a specific example?

[bala4901 (Markus Bala)]

Apologize for not clear explain, Example:
I put the cron run every 1 days at 15 hour.
Next call is 2020-06-23 22:00:00

My time is Asia/Jakarta. Server timezone is UTC.
So, I need to set server time zone which is 15hrs so that it can as my expectation at every day 22hrs in Asia/Jakarta Time

[ced (Cédric Krier)]

Indeed as they are simple integer field, they are not aware of client timezone.
I do not think we can change because:

• we are not going to create a widget just for this special case
• we can not use none UTC on server side as different servers with different timezone could schedule the cron

So I guess the best is to put an help text explaining it is in UTC.

[bala4901 (Markus Bala)]

Agree. might have some help text to somewhere to indicate the Cron is follow server Setting timezone.

[ced (Cédric Krier)]

Or maybe we could add a timezone on ir.cron which will be used to get the datetime when computing the next call. See Issue 9436: Add timezone on cron task - Tryton issue tracker