Thanks for the reply Jay,  I did have TZ set in the general farm settings
but MIN and MAX instances were both equal
in the scaling settings -  when I set the MIN to 0 it worked fine.

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Jay Farschman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Risk,
>
> You should be able to set the timezone at the Farm level in the General
> tab, but maybe you aren't a Farm Designer.  If you cannot, then I think you
> can expect poor results trying to use time-based scaling.
>
> I will add a couple of extra hints...
>
>    1. maybe check your minimum and maximum instance values.  If you write
>    a schedule that says you want 2 servers after Lunch, but your Max Instances
>    are set to 1 it will not scale to 2.
>    2. Maybe without a timezone it defaults to Greenwich mean time.  (+/-
>    0 hours)
>    3. Also, be a bit patient.  Sometimes it takes a few minutes for the
>    event to trigger
>
> Can you see log files?  If not, get that Farm Designer to set you up with
> a proper timezone
>
>
> On Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 10:58:39 PM UTC-7, [email protected]
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi - I'm trying to setup a DateAndTime scaling rule using an America
>> timezone.  I add a
>> schedule rule with a START/END TIME, DAYS of WEEK, and INSTANCES COUNT
>> with Launch/Terminate.   However, the associated instances do not
>> terminate/launch -
>> I've tested on various timezones, and start/end times but the rule does
>> not get applied.
>> I noticed the TIMEZONE is not set in the USER INTERFACE settings (I don't
>> seem
>> to have the ability to change this as the account is managed by another
>> user).
>> Does the USER INTERFACE timezone need to be set to get DateAndTime scaling
>> rules to work?
>>
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