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I'm running a flow via Fargate agent and all of a sudden getting this message in the Fargate logs `[2020-08-25 15:34:14] DEBUG - prefect.CloudFlowRunner | Flow 'Fetch-Authors': start_time has not been reached; ending run.` . The flow is `Submitted for execution` but fargate basically shuts down and stops the task. Any idea why this could happen? I ran this flow lot of times before, never experienced this.

Hi <@U0115CM1XH8> - thanks for the question!  I'm going to check with the team on this one.

Hi <@U0115CM1XH8> - This is usually caused by a mismatch between the agent and the fargate task it creates.  Looks like the task has a clock that is running a little slow.

Hi <@ULXMV9SD7>, thanks for the quick answer! Do you have any advice what I can do about it? Right now I try it over and over and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't (most of the time it doesn't) :confused:

Can you confirm that the clock on the machine that your agent is running on is accurate? e.g., if you run `date` from the terminal or `import pendulum; pendulum.now("utc")` and compare that against the scheduled timestamps for your flow runs?

I wish I could, but I cannot confirm that the time is accurate :smile: Thanks a lot, I'll look into that one!