Is there any way to use UTC?

Question

Is there any way to use UTC?

VitorCioletti opened this issue 5 years ago · comments

Vitor Cioletti Morais commented 5 years ago

Does this library support any cron expression to use UTC timezone?

Atif Aziz · Answer 1 · Mon Feb 18 2019 06:06:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Schedules are calculated irrespective of time zone so you it's up to the caller to decide how to have the resulting time interpreted and adjusted.

Ralph Shillington · Answer 2 · Sun Jul 05 2020 22:43:20 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@VitorCioletti here's a dotnet fiddle script that may help in switching between local times and UTC.

In our case, we store the NextOccurance in our database in UTC and we query in UTC, looking for jobs that are due to run. However, we allow the user to specify the cron expression in their local time (which means we need their timezone)

In this script, I assume "America/Toronto" as the timezone, and get a schedule of runs between 9 and 17 local time.

Hope that helps.

Michael Bisbjerg · Answer 3 · Thu Dec 03 2020 20:35:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

In theory, just "pretending" a DateTime has the proper timezone should do it. It won't handle anything like daylight saving times and so on though..

Łukasz Szafirski · Answer 4 · Sat Jan 15 2022 00:25:47 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Actually UTC is the only zone this library can handle due to mentioned DST nuances.