Hi everyone, I hope you're having a good day! I just saw that my prefect server is desync with my p...

Guillaume Latour

11/29/2021, 5:11 PM

Hi everyone, I hope you're having a good day! I just saw that my prefect server is desync with my prefect agent due to a timezone mismatch (server prefect runs as docker, which have their /etc/localtime point to /usr/share/utc/utc and my agent runs with

prefect agent local start

so it uses my local timezone) Is there any configuration option that I am missing that could provide a custom timezone to all the dockers launched via the

prefect server start

Kevin Kho

11/29/2021, 5:16 PM

Are your flows being picked up off schedule?

Guillaume Latour

11/29/2021, 5:20 PM

yup, and my agent appears constantly as unreachable since it has not been reached since the last 5 minutes

Guillaume Latour

11/29/2021, 5:21 PM

but if I use the 'quicklaunch' it's alright, my agent is contacted immediately

Kevin Kho

11/29/2021, 5:23 PM

Will ask the team for ideas

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Kevin Kho

11/29/2021, 5:59 PM

Ok so the server time runs in UTC (cloud does also), but your browser should render the time as the local time. I think if your quick run is working, and it triggers the flow immediately, it seems that everything is working as intended. When you register a flow, it will get registered as UTC, unless you specify a timezone-aware schedule with

pendulum

. I think the agent showing as unhealthy might be something else. Are the scheduled flows running delayed by the difference of local time and UTC?

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Guillaume Latour

11/30/2021, 8:46 AM

Thank you for your response. Okay I got biased by my timezone idea and did not investigate enough. So all the flows are delayed by 5 minutes in comparison to local time. And the server running the prefect agent and the docker prefect server has the same delay. I guess I have to change the ntp and it'll be alright...

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