How to setup DST support for scheduled exports
Hi,
For our customer in the UK, we have scheduled exports that run daily on fixed times.
How can we configure the scheduled jobs, so they are in Sync with the DST of the UK.
So that when the UK switches to BST (British Summer Time) the export is done at the set time using BST, and when the uk switches to GMT, the export is done at the set time using GMT.
Example:
Export should daily run at 9:00 am on UK DST
So it would run on :
- July 19 at 9:00 am BST ( which is same as 8:am GMT on that date)
- December 19 at 9:00 am GMT
See for more explanantion, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_country
How can we configure this in Syndigo, so that we don't need to reschedule all jobs when the UK, because of daylight saving time, switches between the two time zones.
Thank you,
Erik Bruinsma
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Hi Erik
I'm not aware of any good solution here. The problem is that the schedulers aren't actually scheduled to run at a specific time - they are started at a specific time and then are told to "sleep" for 24 hours, which gives the impression that they are scheduled for a given time.
Unfortunately, I think your only solution would be to re-schedule all exports. Maybe create a script that could update all affected schedules via API.
Hopefully a Syndigo expert has a better approach.
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Hi Eric,
Thank you for your response, we will have a look at creating an API solution, other option is to accept this limitation, even though that would be confusing for the end users...0 -
In our situation, users are not involved (thankfully), so only the systems need to be aligned and we do that via UTC time.
An API solution shouldn't be all to hard to implement, once you get the hang of the API calls.
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