NEW TOPIC Scheduler issue

[benchen71]

Hi mods,

I was extremely excited to see that we can now schedule posts. Thanks for adding this feature!

However, I noticed a minor issue. I had it set to post today's MOAT at exactly 4pm AEST. However, when I came in at 4:25pm after doing some shopping and wanted to see if it had worked, I refreshed the page... and discovered that it posted my post at 4:25pm. My guess is that no one was using the forum between 4pm and 4:25pm and so my page refresh "woke the server up" and it ran the scheduling job at that time.

Is that the expected behaviour? I guess it's not a major issue because it's not as though anyone was wanting to access my puzzle. And if anyone did want to see if the puzzle was there, their request would presumably initiate the scheduler.

It's just that I was hoping to rely quite heavily on the scheduler going forward, and I wanted to make sure it was working as expected.

Sincerely,
Ben.

[Joe Ross]

Hi mods,

I was extremely excited to see that we can now schedule posts. Thanks for adding this feature! :D

However, I noticed a minor issue. I had it set to post today's MOAT at exactly 4pm AEST. However, when I came in at 4:25pm after doing some shopping and wanted to see if it had worked, I refreshed the page... and discovered that it posted my post at 4:25pm. My guess is that no one was using the forum between 4pm and 4:25pm and so my page refresh "woke the server up" and it ran the scheduling job at that time.

Is that the expected behaviour? I guess it's not a major issue because it's not as though anyone was wanting to access my puzzle. And if anyone did want to see if the puzzle was there, their request would presumably initiate the scheduler.

It's just that I was hoping to rely quite heavily on the scheduler going forward, and I wanted to make sure it was working as expected.

Sincerely,
Ben.

Ben,

Thank you for the question and for using the new feature!

You're guess is as good as any and seems plausible, unless...

In testing this new feature, which @MarkWoychick discovered after months of searching and several requests from puzzle creators, we discovered that the time follows the My timezone: choices (there are 2 settings) which the poster of the new Topic has selected in their User Control Panel.

Is it possible that AEST, or whatever you have selected in your My timezone: settings, would be "off the hour" by 25 minutes?

Joe

[benchen71]

I don't think it's timezone related.

[Joe Ross]

Ben,

As discussed via PM, I want to update muggles that further simple testing repeated this issue and it is being researched to try to assure that the scheduled New Topic time will work.

Thanks to you and all muggles for reporting technical issues. Post them here or PM me, @KayW , and/or @MarkWoychick, or in any way with which you're comfortable.

Joe