fix(scheduler): label fixed-time tasks with the server timezone#18653
Fixed-time tasks run in the server’s timezone, but the existing labels show an unqualified wall-clock time. A remote browser can therefore read 14:20 as its own local time.
The list response now reports the server’s timezone, including when no tasks exist. Settings rows, the Run at editor, and thread Automations use that environment’s zone for fixed-time labels. UTC aliases show as UTC; other IANA names remain explicit. Older servers retain their existing labels. Read-only sessions retain the zone while webhook metadata stays hidden. Scheduling and stored tasks are unchanged.
Thanks @ScottN-PV for tracing the ambiguity and the read-only response path in #18653. This takeover preserves the contributor’s commits, merges current main, and replaces the PoC formatter tests and duplicate summary rendering with two behavior regressions and the existing label/tooltip patterns.
| Surface | Before: main | After: this branch |
|---|---|---|
| Settings | Before: Settings omits server timezone | After: Settings names America/New_York |
| Run at editor | Before: Run at editor omits server timezone | After: Run at editor names America/New_York |
| Thread Automations | Before: Thread Automations omits server timezone | After: Thread Automations names America/New_York |
Captured on headless Linux Chromium at 1280×800, browser UTC and server America/New_York, with matching paused synthetic tasks. Baseline: c274a25151; candidate: 2c490d0900. No provider was launched.
The narrow Automations line exposes its full schedule and zone on hover or keyboard focus. Escape closes it while retaining focus; the next Tab reaches Edit. The popup contains the schedule, without the relative next-run text.
First-task editor with an empty list:
An empty task list still supplies America/New_York to the Run at editor
Validation: 107 focused tests pass across all scheduled-task suites, contracts and the two web suites. The three suites tracked during test trimming go from 27 to 29 tests; three PoC tests were replaced by two behavior regressions. Both regressions fail on unchanged production. Scoped lint/type-aware checks and formatting pass; three unchanged unused-variable warnings remain in ws.ts. No repo-wide or full-app typecheck was run.
Real authenticated RPC verification used separate operator and orchestration:read sessions: list, initial subscription, and subscription update all preserve America/New_York while hiding webhook metadata from read-only clients. The operator response includes it. Both the scoped and All environments Settings paths were checked with one connected environment, along with an existing-task and empty-list editor.
Independent Opus and Sol whole-PR reviews found no code issues in round 1. Sol independently passed all 107 focused tests; Opus also verified the service regression under Asia/Kolkata.
Not verified: multiple connected environments with different zones, relay/tunnel, actual scheduled provider execution, screen readers, Electron shell, macOS, Windows, iOS or Android. Mobile labels are deliberately outside this PR’s scope; web and desktop share the changed components.
Takeover: GPT-6-Astra (tests), GPT-6.1-Sol (implementation and coordination), Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6-Sol (reviews), through Codex and Claude harnesses in T3 Code.
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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a contained scheduled-task labeling fix: it adds optional server timezone metadata and updates existing UI labels without changing task execution or stored data. The additive contract change preserves older-server behavior, and the new logic is covered by focused tests.
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The scheduled-task list response now includes the server time zone. Settings and thread automation views use it to label fixed-time schedules. Thread schedule summaries also include next-run or paused status.
Changes: Scheduled-task time-zone display
Layer / File(s) Summary Expose the server time zone
packages/contracts/src/scheduledTask.ts,apps/server/src/scheduledTasks/ScheduledTaskService.ts,apps/server/src/ws.ts,apps/server/src/scheduledTasks/ScheduledTaskService.schedule.test.tsThe list result adds an optional time zone, and the service returns the server’s local zone. The WebSocket response preserves the result for sessions with the operate scope; other sessions continue to receive tasks without webhook fields. A test checks the time zone on an empty list. Show time zones in settings
apps/web/src/components/settings/scheduledTasksSettings.logic.ts,apps/web/src/components/settings/ScheduledTasksSettings.tsx,apps/web/src/components/settings/scheduledTasksSettings.logic.test.tsSettings normalize UTC labels and append available time zones to fixed-time schedule labels. The editor displays the time zone beside the fixed-run editor. Tests cover UTC aliases, other zone names, and an absent zone. Show schedule summaries in threads
apps/web/src/components/chat/ThreadAutomationsPanel.tsxThread schedule text includes the task time zone and next-run or paused status. The text appears in a truncated, keyboard-focusable tooltip. Priority: ➖ Normal
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Read-only sessions retain the time-zone label while webhook details remain hidden. A focused regression test for that response path is still missing, so merging is reasonable with that test as a follow-up.
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The change adds server time-zone labels without changing task execution, environment selection, or access to webhook URLs. No material security risk was identified in the reviewed change.
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- observed — The added disclosure is the server's local time-zone identifier to existing scheduled-task list and subscription recipients, including read-only sessions. The changed response contract adds no credential or additional task collection.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
- observed — The time-zone value flows into React text rendering, not an executable or navigation sink. Existing environment identifiers and operation-scope checks remain attached to task controls; the new value is not included in save, toggle, or run commands.
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1310-1310: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd a restricted-session regression test for the scheduled-task list wrapper.
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withVisibleWebhookUrls. Test a session with only read scope throughscheduledTasks.listand assert thattimeZoneremains present whilewebhookis removed. Reverting the spread would omittimeZone, so fixed-time labels would lose the server-zone suffix.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- fix(web): scheduled task times name the server's timezone34c9543
Taking over this one as maintainer for batch scheduler-tasks-02. I will preserve your commits, merge current main, and rebuild the minimum server-timezone labels with focused coverage and fresh before/after evidence. Thanks @ScottN-PV for tracing the remote-client ambiguity and read-only metadata path.
Added 6 commits
- Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into fix/18632-scheduled-task-zone-label0296d1d
- refactor(scheduler): reset timezone proof of concept for takeover858dfe1
- test(scheduler): cover server timezone metadata and labels5dc32ca
- fix(scheduler): label fixed-time tasks with the server timezone2c490d0
- Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into l54-186539f13bbe
- test(scheduler): provide ManagedProjectFolders to the zone test layer1f86ad6