Daylight saving switch changes job start time

[JerrySeltzer]

With the recent annual end of daylight saving time in the US, I noticed an annoying issue with my Veeam O365 backups starting an hour earlier. Backup jobs that were set to run at end of day at 6PM are now running at 5PM instead, missing the last hour of work. It also interferes with monitoring software that looks for the email reports between 6PM and 9AM.
The earlier starting job now sends emails outside the window and are detected as failures.

I'm guessing the schedule converts to UTC, but I need my jobs based off local time zones. Could an option be added to choose UTC or local based start times?

[Polina]

Hi Jerry,

Your guessing is correct - the time is converted to UTC (which fits the needs of distributed deployments) and after the daylight change job schedules have to be adjusted manually.

[Bjoern_ch]

Hi there,
ran into the same issue (like everyone else i assume).
I`m a bit confused about it. Daylight saving time should not make such a mess! Changing the schedule can have an huge impact!
We have a lot of jobs because we backup more than one orga. Manually changing all jobs is quite some work. This is not convenient.
From my point of view veeam should not ask the customers to change every job schedule every six months. veeam just works, but not in winter i guess...
Please fix this. Thanks.
Bjoern

[FlorianM]

Since we started with VBO some years ago we have the issue after the clock change twice a year.
The Job start time and also the Backup Window was changed automatically during the time change/clock change.
For this I like to request to work on it for the new Versions of VBO. That should be fixed from Veeam.

[Mildur]

Hi Florian

Welcome to the forum. I moved your post to this topic.
Currently the time is stored in UTC. That's the reason why the jobs change their start time twice a year.
We count yours and Bjoerns comment as a +1 for a fix in a future version.

Thanks
Fabian

[Bjoern_ch]

This weekend time changed again.
So, thanks again, for changing all schedules as well...
Is there any news, when this will be fixed?
Thanks.

[Mildur]

Hi Bjoern

We have it on our roadmap.
But the request last November was to late to be included in V7.
It will be fixed in a future version of Veeam.

Best,
Fabian

[toma1269]

I agree, this needs to be resolved asap. Apparently has been an issue for at least 3 yrs now.