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Default timezone for a recurring job on HangFire

Does anyone know the default timezone used by Hangfire when setting up a recurring job? I suspect it is UTC and not the timezone of the host server.

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Panagiotis Kanavos
Panagiotis Kanavos

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I suspect the real question is how to specify the timezone, not whether it's UTC or local.

The Cron class docs explicitly specify that UTC is used, eg:

Daily() Returns cron expression that fires every day at 00:00 UTC.

Daily(Int32) Returns cron expression that fires every day at the first minute of the specified hour in UTC.

etc

That's just the default though. The Cron class doesn't hard-code the timezone, it simply creates a CRON string. If you want to use a different timezone you can pass it through the timeZone parameter in all AddOrUpdate overloads.

The parameter accepts a TimeZoneInfo instance. TimeZoneInfo allows you to specify a timezone by its Windows name, UTC or Local, in which case it returns the system's timezone.

In that case though the problem becomes What's the server's timezone? If the web app needs to use a specific timezone it's better to be explicit, especially when using cloud VMs

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