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Artem Ervits commented on OOZIE-2867: ------------------------------------- [~gezapeti] [~rkanter] all tests pass locally. Can we get this into beta 5.0? > Timezone handling for Coordinators: emphasize "Continent/City" format > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: OOZIE-2867 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-2867 > Project: Oozie > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: coordinator > Affects Versions: 4.3.0 > Reporter: Andras Piros > Assignee: Artem Ervits > Priority: Major > Attachments: OOZIE-2867-0.patch, OOZIE-2867-1.patch, > OOZIE-2867-2.patch, OOZIE-2867-3.patch, OOZIE-2867-4.patch, > OOZIE-2867-5.patch, OOZIE-2867-6.patch, OOZIE-2867-7.patch > > > It seems that some time zone abbreviations like {{BST}} for British Summer > Time silently just do not get accepted correctly by Oozie and the underlying > JVM. > It would be great to: > * emphasize in the Coordinator Functional Specification that it's best to > only use time zone format {{Continent/City}}, like {{Europe/London}}, or > {{America/Los_Angeles}}, instead of other formats like {{PDT}}, {{PST}}, or > {{BST}} > * if the timezone is not recognized by Oozie, it's best to emit a {{WARN}} > log and suppose {{UTC}} instead of silently ignoring the unknown specified > timezone -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)