I am starting to use the Scheduled Tasks component more and more, and what I noticed is that it accounts for the site's time zone, including daylight saving time (DST) differently than the Content component does. The publish_up time for articles seems to compensate for DST correctly for America/New York. For example, set your site's time zone to one in the USA that uses DST (e.g., America/New York) and then publish an article, setting its Start Publishing time to any date at midnight (00:00:00). Then look at that article in the #__content table and see what its publish_up time is. DST is currently still active here in Virginia, so that time should be 04:00:00. But if I schedule a task to run at 00:00:00 in the Scheduled Tasks component, it's showing as 05:00:00 in the task's Next Execution Time. That won't be correct until DST ends at 02:00:00 ET Nov 3.
Statistics: Posted by bascherz — Sat Oct 26, 2024 4:50 pm