Scheduling Actions for ClientLocalTime Not Working

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I am trying to schedule actions via API/Powershell. I submit the webrequest along with some XML (below) with what should be the local start and end times. What happens is the times get converted to 3 hours ahead, not the actual local time I need the schedule to occur.

  1. The BES Clients and BES Server are all located in the Eastern Time Zone
  2. I am in the Pacific Time Zone

I am populating the blank elements in the PS script with the datetime object. As an example, when I schedule something to occur at 8:00:00 PM Client Local Time, the job shows up scheduled at 11:00PM Client Local Time - as if it is adding the three-hour difference from me to the server.

When I execute my PS script from a host located in the Eastern Time zone, the scheduled times are correct.

            <HasStartTime>true</HasStartTime>
            <StartDateTimeLocal></StartDateTimeLocal>
            <HasEndTime>true</HasEndTime>
            <EndDateTimeLocal></EndDateTimeLocal>
            <UseUTCTime>false</UseUTCTime>
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Hm. I haven’t been able to reproduce that issue, having tried several time zones on my machine.

Can you post the full <Settings> block, with the values filled in?
If you’re building this dynamically in PowerShell as in your other case, it may be useful to just print the XML onscreen before POSTing it.

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Well that helped! I had tunnel vision - turns out I was converting the time to UTS in the powershell script elsewhere and didn’t realize it. All good now!

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