raehirsch opened a new issue #18678: URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/18678
### Describe the issue with documentation There is no obvious documentation about when DAGs actually run compared to their scheduled cron string. Please indicate where this is documented in the official Airflow documentation. All I was able to find was a blog post (https://eugeneyan.com/writing/why-airflow-jobs-one-day-late/). ### How to solve the problem At the top of the Variables page, there should be a note saying something like "if you schedule a job for '0 2 * * *' and you want it to execute on 6/19/21 at 2am, it will be actually run at 2am on 6/20/21 with the { ds } of 6/19/21 at 02:00:00 (i.e. there is always a 24 hour delay after the scheduled time)". ### Anything else We have experience using Glue, Control-M, Kubernetes, etc and have never encountered this type of inherent delay. ### Are you willing to submit PR? - [ ] Yes I am willing to submit a PR! ### Code of Conduct - [X] I agree to follow this project's [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
