Add 'UTC' hint text to Notebook Task Scheduler UI and documentation / Fix between hours for non-UTC

[ChristopherCounsell]

Scheduling a notebook task allows users to specify the period the task will run during the day.

It does not indicate that this will run in UTC and this is not specified in the documentation.

https://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-online/create-maps/prepare-a-notebook-for-automated-execution.htm

This is causing difficulty as users are scheduling tasks to run every 15 minutes during the overnight period in non-UTC timezones and it's not immediately apparent that this behaviour will occur.

It also means that in Australia we can't run things during business hours only as it's 'overnight' in UTC.

[ChristopherCounsell]

@RaviNarayanan saw you were across this on another post.

Currently time based scheduler is useless for some regions business hours

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[NicholasGiner1]

Hello, thanks for asking about this.  Would it be possible for you to re-check if you are still having this issue?  We had a bug for this that was fixed in the ArcGIS Enterprise 11.4 release (and also the November 2024 AGOL release), which was after you posted this.

As I understand it, the bug was that the time values you entered in the "Edit task" UI (e.g. 7pm) were not being converted to UTC.  Therefore, the task scheduler treated these local time values as if they were the UTC times.  

Please let us know if you are still having this issue.

thanks,

Nick Giner - Product Manager