Time inconsistency

[former_member660488]

hello experts,

The start time of the background job is inconsistent with the local computer time.

How to adjust the start time of the job to be consistent with the local computer time？

Sometimes background jobs has a delay of more than 30 seconds. What caused this

[former_member660488]

hello experts,

The start time of the background job is inconsistent with the local computer time.

How to adjust the start time of the job to be consistent with the local computer time？

Sometimes background jobs has a delay of more than 30 seconds. What caused this

[Sandra_Rossi]

Why do you say it's inconsistent? The time of application server and time of local computer may vary because of different time zone. Or maybe Unix administrator didn't synchronize the time of application server with time servers.

Background jobs may not start immediately, as per SAP feature (a little bit complex to explain everything). I don't understand why it's a problem for you, could you explain?

[DavidLY]

The most important time zone in an SAP installation is the system time zone. Almost all technical date&time information like creation dates are based on the system time zone. And especially the background jobs need to be scheduled in system time zone. So if a user in for example EST time zone wants a background job to start at a certain point in time with their time zone in mind, he/she would need to convert that UTC point in time to EST time and enter that date/time as the start of the job.

[former_member660488]

In the same time zone, there will be a time gap between the local computer and sy-uzeit

[former_member660488]

Under special circumstances, I need to start the background job at a fixed computer time

[Sandra_Rossi]

You must use the server time. If the "now" time is 2pm at your laptop and you want to schedule at 3pm, but the server "now" time is 2:30pm, then schedule your job at server time 3:30pm.

If I don't understand your question, could you explain your issue with an actual example please?

[FredericGirod]

If you need to have a time aligned perfectly, you have to setup a NTP server & use the client on every system : SAP & computers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol