Question about Dates

[Max Hansmire]

I am having problems understanding the dates in oozie. The nominal time of my 
coordinator does not always match up with the output directory of my 
coordinator.

Here is some data taken from the runtime properties of my workflow. The runDate 
is the nominalTime of the workflow. The output dir is taken from the output 
event that uses ${coord:current(0)}.

  <property>
    <name>runDate</name>
    <value>2012-03-04</value>
  </property>
  <property>
    <name>outputDir</name>
    
<value>hdfs://prodhpmaster01n:56310/user/hive/stamps/stamp_in_question/ds=2012-03-03</value>
  </property>

Here is the dataset definition.

    <dataset name="example" frequency="${coord:days(1)}"
        initial-instance="2011-05-01T05:00Z" timezone="America/New_York">
        
<uri-template>${nameNode}/user/hive/stamps/stamp_in_question/ds=${YEAR}-${MONTH}-${DAY}
        </uri-template>
        <done-flag></done-flag>
    </dataset>

The start time of the coordinator is 07:00Z and the frequency is this: 
frequency="${coord:days(1)}" 

I want the date on the outputDir to match the runDate. What is the best was to 
achieve that? In particular, I want to know how oozie chooses the date to use 
with an output event. 07:00Z (the start time) is well past the 05:00Z start 
time of the data set so it seems like they should match up. I suspect that am 
thinking about this all wrong though.

Max