Hi Mender team, On creating a scheduled deployment in GUI, it is possible to choose the date of deployment. Nice ! In what context is this date evaluated however ? E.g. do each client wait for this date in their respective timezone to enter the Install state ? Or is this the date that the mender se…

The time on the client doesn’t matter. It’s the server which controls the time, and from the client’s perspective the deployment doesn’t even exist until that time has arrived and the server starts offering artifacts.

Scheduled deployments: how is the date evaluated?

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guillaumekh March 10, 2020, 8:25am 3

And that’s UTC time, right?

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Scheduled deployments: how is the date evaluated?

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