MSBuild Definition Scheduling not working - problem with Trigger settings

Question

I have encountered a strange bug in MSBuild Definition Dialog. I have a build definition which needs to trigger on working days 5:00 AM. Accordingly in the Build Definition Dialog > Trigger tab i have checked on "Build every week on the following days" and selected the Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri.
Now my problem is the build does not get triggered on the selected days instead the build schedules itself on Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun. After Analyzing the problem on different build machines i found that the Trigger Tab in Build Definition dialog is displaying different days on different machines.
Why are we getting the different days selected on different machines?
How to rectify the problem or i should say how to get the build scheduled on desired days?

Answer 1

Hi Dhruv,

This behavior is very starnge, mostly it relates the difference of date/ time / timezone betweent TFS APP Tier and client build machines.

Could you check the ([Weekday1],[Weekday2],[Weekday3] ,[Weekday4] ,[Weekday5] ,[Weekday6] ,[Weekday7]) value of the schedule in database  TfsBuild.tbl_Schedule.  The [schedule time] means total seconds. 

Best Regards,
Ruiz 

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