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Hari Sekhon commented on OOZIE-1805:
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Could you consider this a feature request to add an option something along the
lines of "use localtime"?
> Oozie Cron diverges from standard timezone and day behaviours
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> Key: OOZIE-1805
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-1805
> Project: Oozie
> Issue Type: Bug
> Environment: CDH5
> Reporter: Hari Sekhon
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> The addition of cron syntax in Oozie (OOZIE-1306) is a good idea but the
> implementation of the fields diverges from standard cron which seems counter
> intuitive for unix veterans.
> Taken from Cloudera's blog:
> http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2014/04/how-to-use-cron-like-scheduling-in-apache-oozie
> 1. Executing in UTC seems like a bad idea when cron uses local time… if you
> wanted to use UTC you would do it for everything and set your servers to UTC
> timezone.
> Having to translate timezones to figure out what to enter requires more
> effort on the part of the user.
> 2. The day field offsets are wrong/needlessly different compared to ISC cron
> which is zero indexed and uses 0 or 7 for Sunday instead of starting from 1.
> These points will cause a less intuitive experience and surely some
> misconfigurations... could we realign this or would it require an upstream
> fix to the Quartz Scheduler? If the latter would it be easier to just reindex
> the days and calculate the timezone in Oozie before feeding to Quartz?
> Thanks
> Hari Sekhon
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/harisekhon
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