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Task scheduler jobs running 1 hour earlier than expected since DST change

Since the Daylight Savings time change on 3/13 we have been noticing some scheduled tasks running 1 hour earlier than expected. This is now happening with tasks on both Windows Server 2016 and 2019 boxes that are patched up until last month. Once the task runs early it continues to run early for each subsequent daily run.
The strange part is DST moved us 1 hour forward so jobs running 1 hour earlier than expected do not make sense to me.

DST just happens to be the only change in our environment and so I am focusing currently on that as a related cause.

The job history prior to DST change shows, for example, the job starting at 0200. After the DST change the job task still shows a trigger of 0200 but the job history shows the jobs are running at 0100. This is not all tasks on the box just a small number of tasks
Running SCHTASKS on the server shows the same trigger time as the task scheduler interface, which is the correct trigger time. But its the job history tab of the job that shows its running 1 hour early.

For the 3 jobs that this is happening on we are noticing a trend of the scheduled trigger to run the job Tuesday through Saturday. I dont see any other correlation between these jobs.

We have restarted the box as well as changing the start time of the job and the job continues to run 1 hour early.

Next up is just to delete the job and recreate it. Anybody experience anything like this?

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I have on a Windows 10 1809 Machine with all patches the exact same problem after Daylight Savings time last week 27 of March in Central Europe.
But not with all Tasks.
The first bad Task run 1 hour earlier trigger weekly (weeksinterval = 1) on 6 days but not on Thursdays at 01:56.
The second bad Task run 1 hour earlier trigger weekly (weeksinterval = 1) on 4 days but not on Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays at 02:30.
The third bad Task run 1 hour earlier trigger weekly (weeksinterval = 1) only on Thursday at 02:00.

All other weekly Tasks seams to trigger on the right time.

Is there any help from Microsoft?

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JoshuaThompson-0351 answered

We ended up deleting the scheduled tasks and recreating them. No further issues.

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We've had the same problem with a recurring task that's supposed to run at 2:10 AM. It started right after DST change last week and fixed itself this week.

See screenshots below. It seems to only affect Weekly triggers.

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JoshuaThompson-0351 answered

That is what we are seeing as well however our jobs did not fix themselves. They continued to run 1 hour before they were supposed to run even though in the scheduled task GUI they showed a start time of 0200. Even SCHTAKS command line showed a run time of 0200

If the job was scheduled to run at 0200 the job would kick off at 0100. It would not run again at true 0200.

These jobs are weekly triggers as well.


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Fab-1805 answered

After exactly 1 Week the three bad tasks starting 1 hour earlier, now starts at the right Time. The PC show still the correct Central Europe Summer Time CEST. See also my post 4 days ago.

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