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get_variant_schedule always reports next run as UTC (even if schedule is set-up in different time-zone)
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Description
Dear,
While I am aware that the get_variant_schedule is still to be considered experimental, I would like to report a potential bug to help improve it.
Problem description
Currently, if a schedule is set in, for example, GMT+2 (Brussels, CEST), the output of get_variant_schedule(variant)$schedule_data$next_run is reported as: "2022-09-13T14:05:19Z" (i.e. being "Zulu" time or UTC).
Parsing with as.POSIXct leads to the time being recognized as UTC. This is incorrect, since it is actually should read: "2022-09-13T14:05:19+02:00" to be correct (and ISO8601 compliant).
Alternatively, the time could be given in UTC as well, but then should be substracted by 2 h (in this case): "2022-09-13T12:05:19Z"
Reprex
Hard to provide a code reprex, since I mostly use the GUI to set a schedule. The following steps should be sufficient to reproduce.
- Deploy an Rmarkdown document that can generate scheduled output to Rstudio connect
- Set the schedule in a timezone other than UTC
- Query the published item using
item <- connectapi::content_item - Get the item's default variant using
default_variant <- connectapi::get_variant_default(item) - Get the default variant's schedule using
default_schedule <- connectapi::get_variant_schedule(own_default_variant) - Inspect the output of
default_schedule$schedule_data$next_run
Session information
- R 4.2.1
- RStudio connect 2022.07.0
- connectapi 0.1.1.1
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Research direction
Start at the get_variant_schedule entry point and trace how schedule_data$next_run is parsed or formatted. Reproduce the issue by creating a schedule in a non-UTC timezone, then inspect the returned timestamp; done means the timezone offset and instant are represented correctly.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- r
- Domain
- api
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100