Unable to schedule hipposched - unable to determine the name of the local timezone

[mnmnc]

Request Type

Bug

Work Environment

Question	Answer
OS version (server)	RedHat
OS version (client)	Seven
Package Type	Docker

Problem Description

Unable to schedule hipposched as specified in docs. Error 500.

Steps to Reproduce

1. made a curl request as specified in docs:

 curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"time" : "* */12 * * *"}' "https://XXXX/hippocampe/api/v1.0/hipposched"
HTTP/1.0 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 287
Server: Werkzeug/0.14.1 Python/2.7.14
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 08:10:21 GMT
Set-Cookie: XXXXXXXX; path=/; HttpOnly; Secure
Connection: keep-alive

{"error":"Unable to determine the name of the local timezone -- you must explicitly specify the name of the local timezone. Please refrain from using timezones like EST to prevent problems with daylight saving time. Instead, use a locale based timezone name (such as Europe/Helsinki)."} 

2. Get error: Unable to determine the name of the local timezone

[remiallain]

OS version (server)	Debian
OS version (client)	9.5
Package Type	Docker

I encountered the same error:

curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '
{
        "time" : "* */12 * * *"
}' http://127.0.0.1:5000/hippocampe/api/v1.0/hipposched

HTTP/1.0 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 287
Server: Werkzeug/0.14.1 Python/2.7.15
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 10:12:33 GMT

{"error":"Unable to determine the name of the local timezone -- you must explicitly specify the name of the local timezone. Please refrain from using timezones like EST to prevent problems with daylight saving time. Instead, use a locale based timezone name (such as Europe/Helsinki)."}

[ndragon798]

You can add these to the file and it will allow you to set your time zone

import os

os.environ['TZ']= 'America/New_York'

[MachLearnPort]

@ndragon798 has the fix. By 'file', they mean core/services/hipposched.py