I'm experiencing a very tricky bug or "feature" in Taskqueues regarding 
tasks set with an ETA.  Tasks are being executed 1 hour later than expected 
*in some instances* (inconsistently).  I think this behavior started after 
DST.

In my experience with a handful of scheduled tasks (e.g. development), it 
works fine.  I'm using UTC timestamps in my Tasks set with the 
"etaMillis()" method in the Taskqueue API.  Things execute just when 
expected.  

Each night, however, I have thousands of tasks that queue up.  This causes 
multiple AppEngine instances to fire up (and I think this is important--the 
root cause of the inconsistent behavior).  Only during load am I seeing 
this issue.  *Some* tasks--are executing exactly 1 hour behind when they 
are expected to.  My AppEngine region is us-central.

Task queues are a wonderful feature of AppEngine.  Anyone else experience 
this with high volumes of scheduled tasks?  What's going on?  Different app 
engine instances with different time zone settings?  

I'm thinking a potential alternative will be to specify countdown 
instead... maybe this will resolve the issue?

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