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Julia Kinga Marton commented on OOZIE-2494:
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One approach for DST handling would be something implemented in OOZIE-2726,
but with including a DST corrections, even if the timezone is ignored, is not
so elegant and it may lead to further misunderstandings.
A more elegant solution (proposed earlier by [~pbacsko]) would be to allow the
user to choose if he want to use the default processing timezone (how is it
working now), or if he would like to use another timezone., by adding an extra
element in the xml.
I would go for this xml extension option, but I am curious about other opinions
as well.
[~rkanter] what is your opinion about this approach?
> Cron syntax not handling DST properly
> -------------------------------------
>
> Key: OOZIE-2494
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-2494
> Project: Oozie
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: coordinator
> Affects Versions: 4.2.0
> Reporter: Dennis Pallett
> Assignee: Julia Kinga Marton
> Priority: Blocker
> Attachments: CronExpressionPOC.java, OOZIE-2494-001.patch,
> OOZIE-2494-002.patch, OOZIE-2494-003.patch, OOZIE-2494-004.patch,
> testActionMaterWithDST3.patch
>
>
> When specifying a coordinator frequency, you can also specify a "timezone".
> While the frequency is always calculated in UTC, the timezone’s DST rules are
> still applied. We can see this in the following two Coordinators, which ran
> across the DST shift (March 13 2016 at 2am) for the America/Los_Angeles
> timezone. The "el-UTC" job has "UTC" as the timezone, while the "el-LA" job
> has “America/Los_Angeles” as the timezone. Both jobs have a frequency of
> {{$\{coord:days(1)\}}}.
> {noformat}
> Job Name : el-UTC
> Start Time : 2016-03-13 01:10 GMT | 2016-03-12 17:10 PST
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> ID Nominal Time (UTC) Nominal Time (LA)
> @1 2016-03-13 01:10 GMT 2016-03-12 17:10 PST
> @2 2016-03-14 01:10 GMT 2016-03-13 18:10 PDT
> {noformat}
> {noformat}
> Job Name : el-LA
> Start Time : 2016-03-13 01:10 GMT | 2016-03-12 17:10 PST
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> ID Nominal Time (UTC) Nominal Time (LA)
> @1 2016-03-13 01:10 GMT 2016-03-12 17:10 PST
> @2 2016-03-14 00:10 GMT 2016-03-13 17:10 PDT
> {noformat}
> As you can see, @2’s nominal time is adjusted to an hour earlier in the
> "el-LA" job, but not in the "el-UTC" job.
> However, when running a similar set of jobs, but using cron syntax [({{10 1
> 1/1 * *}}|http://crontab.guru/#10_1_1/1_*_*], which indicates 1:10 every day
> of every month), this isn’t the case:
> {noformat}
> Job Name : cron-UTC
> Start Time : 2016-03-13 01:08 GMT | 2016-03-12 17:08 PST
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> ID Nominal Time (UTC) Nominal Time (LA)
> @1 2016-03-13 01:10 GMT 2016-03-12 17:10 PST
> @2 2016-03-14 01:10 GMT 2016-03-13 18:10 PDT
> {noformat}
> {noformat}
> Job Name : cron-LA
> Start Time : 2016-03-13 01:08 GMT | 2016-03-12 17:08 PST
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> ID Nominal Time (UTC) Nominal Time (LA)
> @1 2016-03-13 01:10 GMT 2016-03-12 17:10 PST
> @2 2016-03-14 01:10 GMT 2016-03-13 18:10 PDT
> {noformat}
> As you can see, @2’s nominal time are the same in both the "cron-UTC" and
> "cron-LA" jobs. The "cron-LA" job should have the same nominal time as the
> "el-LA" job from earlier.
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