fix: honor scheduler timezones

[dajiaohuang]

Summary

• evaluate cron and naive one-shot schedules in their configured IANA timezone
• preserve explicit timestamp offsets and UTC as the compatibility fallback
• support DST-aware cron calculation plus PRAISONAI_SCHEDULE_TIMEZONE and config.yaml scheduler.timezone defaults
• thread timezone selection through the Python parser, agent tool, CLI --tz option, and agents.yaml cron configuration
• share the same timezone-aware cron calculation with sync and async wrapper schedulers

Validation

• 128 core scheduler tests passed
• 128 wrapper scheduler tests passed
• DST spring-forward and fall-back cases covered
• scheduler modules compile successfully
• git diff --check

Closes #3871

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added timezone support for cron and one-time scheduled jobs.
  • Added the --tz option for schedule creation.
  • Added YAML support for cron expressions and schedule timezones.
  • Added environment- and configuration-based timezone defaults.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved daylight-saving-time handling for recurring schedules.
  • Naive timestamps now use the configured schedule timezone.
  • Invalid timezone names and empty cron values now fail validation.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Scheduler timezone support now spans timezone resolution, schedule parsing, configuration defaults, CLI and tool inputs, YAML loading, synchronous and asynchronous schedulers, cron evaluation, one-shot timestamps, and DST-focused tests.

Changes

Scheduler timezone support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Timezone resolution and due evaluation src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/scheduler/due.py, src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/scheduler/parser.py, src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/scheduler/config_store.py	Schedules accept validated IANA timezones. Cron and naive one-shot due checks use schedule or instance defaults, with UTC as the final fallback.
Timezone authoring surfaces src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/tools/schedule_tools.py, src/praisonai/praisonai/cli/commands/schedule.py	schedule_add and schedule add accept timezone values and pass them to schedule parsing. Confirmations include supplied timezones.
Runtime and YAML propagation src/praisonai/praisonai/scheduler/yaml_loader.py, src/praisonai/praisonai/scheduler/agent_scheduler.py, src/praisonai/praisonai/scheduler/async_agent_scheduler.py, src/praisonai/praisonai/scheduler/shared.py	YAML timezone fields flow into both scheduler implementations and ScheduleTicker. Cron due-time and next-run calculations use timezone-aware helper logic.
Timezone behavior validation src/praisonai-agents/tests/unit/test_schedule_timezone.py, src/praisonai/tests/unit/scheduler/test_timezone_surface.py	Tests cover DST transitions, timestamp offsets, defaults, invalid values, persistence, configuration, YAML loading, scheduler wiring, and CLI forwarding.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to f23d6

This change updates timezone handling across cron parsing and scheduling, but YAML cron schedules can still be rejected before execution and invalid timezone values can silently prevent schedules from running. The agent-facing path also lacks required end-to-end validation, creating concrete scheduling and integration risk; the PR is not merge-ready until these issues are fixed or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant schedule_add
  participant parse_schedule
  participant ScheduleTicker
  participant is_due
  CLI->>schedule_add: pass --tz value
  schedule_add->>parse_schedule: parse expression with timezone
  parse_schedule-->>schedule_add: return Schedule with tz
  ScheduleTicker->>is_due: evaluate scheduled job
  is_due->>is_due: apply schedule or default timezone

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Possibly related PRs

• MervinPraison/PraisonAI#3527: Modifies the scheduler classes and ScheduleTicker for wall-clock cron scheduling.
• MervinPraison/PraisonAI#3601: Introduces the shared next_fire_time behavior extended by this change.

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes implement timezone-aware cron and one-shot scheduling across core logic, defaults, Python, CLI, YAML, and agent-tool surfaces required by #3871.
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Greptile Summary

The PR adds IANA-timezone-aware evaluation for cron and naive one-shot schedules while retaining UTC and explicit-offset compatibility.

• Persists and resolves schedule-level, environment, and config.yaml timezone defaults.
• Threads timezone selection through the agent tool, CLI, YAML loader, and synchronous/asynchronous wrapper schedulers.
• Adds DST, validation, persistence, CLI, and YAML coverage.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge.

No blocking failure remains.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/scheduler/due.py	Centralizes IANA timezone resolution and evaluates cron and naive one-shot schedules in the selected timezone.
src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/scheduler/config_store.py	Loads and validates the scheduler-level timezone default and supplies it during atomic due checks.
src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/scheduler/parser.py	Accepts, validates, and stores optional timezone values on parsed schedules.
src/praisonai/praisonai/scheduler/shared.py	Makes wrapper cron ticker calculations timezone-aware while preserving interval behavior.
src/praisonai/praisonai/scheduler/yaml_loader.py	Adds cron and timezone aliases to YAML schedule loading and validation.
src/praisonai/praisonai/cli/commands/schedule.py	Exposes --tz when creating persisted schedules through the CLI.
src/praisonai-agents/tests/unit/test_schedule_timezone.py	Covers core timezone resolution, DST transitions, parser behavior, persistence, and tool propagation.
src/praisonai/tests/unit/scheduler/test_timezone_surface.py	Covers wrapper ticker, YAML, synchronous/asynchronous scheduler, and CLI timezone surfaces.

Flowchart

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart LR
  Input["CLI / agent tool / agents.yaml"] --> Parse["Parse schedule and timezone"]
  Env["PRAISONAI_SCHEDULE_TIMEZONE"] --> Resolve["Resolve IANA timezone"]
  Config["config.yaml scheduler.timezone"] --> Resolve
  Parse --> Resolve
  Resolve --> Persist["Persist schedule tz"]
  Persist --> Due["Timezone-aware due calculation"]
  Due --> Core["Core schedule store"]
  Due --> Sync["Sync wrapper scheduler"]
  Due --> Async["Async wrapper scheduler"]

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@claude You are the FINAL architecture reviewer. If the branch is under MervinPraison/PraisonAI (not a fork), you are able to make modifications to this branch and push directly. SCOPE: Focus ONLY on Python packages (praisonaiagents, praisonai). Do NOT modify praisonai-rust or praisonai-ts. Read ALL comments above from Gemini, Qodo, CodeRabbit, and Copilot carefully before responding.

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5. Do not bloat the Agent class with additional params — only if absolutely required; we already support many params.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/scheduler/config_store.py`:
- Around line 340-345: Validate the configured timezone before assigning
_default_timezone in config_store.py, using resolve_schedule_timezone for
scheduler.timezone or scheduler.tz and propagating ValueError with the invalid
timezone name. Also validate the effective timezone when constructing a cron
ScheduleTicker in shared.py, before its fallback handlers run; update both
affected sites accordingly.

In `@src/praisonai-agents/tests/unit/test_schedule_timezone.py`:
- Around line 95-113: Add a real agentic test alongside
test_schedule_tool_persists_timezone where an Agent receives a real prompt,
invokes agent.start(), and calls the scheduling tool through the model rather
than directly. Print the complete model output and retain assertions verifying
that the requested timezone is persisted.
- Line 27: Remove the module-level pytest.importorskip("croniter") and add the
dependency skip only within the DST test cases that invoke next_fire_time. Keep
the one-shot, timezone validation, tool persistence, and configuration-store
tests runnable without croniter.

In `@src/praisonai/praisonai/scheduler/yaml_loader.py`:
- Around line 94-102: Update validate_schedule_config to accept schedule values
prefixed with “cron:” and reject them when the expression after the prefix is
empty, while preserving existing hourly, daily, step, and numeric validation.
Add a YAML startup test that invokes validate_schedule_config before
constructing the scheduler and covers a valid cron expression.

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• src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/tools/schedule_tools.py
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• src/praisonai/praisonai/cli/commands/schedule.py
• src/praisonai/praisonai/scheduler/agent_scheduler.py
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• src/praisonai/praisonai/scheduler/shared.py
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Final Architecture Review — PR #3894 (Scheduler Timezone Support) ✅

Verdict: Approve after fixes — pushed directly to fix/3871-schedule-timezone (commit b595f04f6).

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Phase 1 — Architecture (AGENTS.md)

• Routing ✅ — Core timezone resolution/parsing lives in praisonaiagents/scheduler/ (protocol + helpers); heavy/CLI/YAML wiring stays in the praisonai/ wrapper. Correct core-vs-wrapper split.
• Backward compatible ✅ — tz is optional everywhere; UTC remains the fallback and explicit offsets are preserved. No feature regressions.
• Performance ✅ — No hot-path regressions; croniter/ZoneInfo resolution only runs on due-check, unchanged cost profile.
• SDK value ✅ — Genuine correctness fix (cron/one-shot now honour their configured IANA zone + DST). Not scope creep.
• Agent class ✅ — No new Agent params added; wiring is scheduler-local.

Phase 2 — Fixes implemented (valid reviewer findings)

#	Finding (CodeRabbit)	Resolution
1	Invalid tz silently disables cron (fail-fast)	config_store._load now validates scheduler.timezone/.tz via resolve_schedule_timezone and re-raises ValueError; ScheduleTicker.__init__ validates cron tz before fallback handlers can mask it
2	validate_schedule_config rejects cron: values	Validator now accepts cron:<expr> and rejects only empty expressions
3	Module-level croniter importorskip too broad	Skip scoped to the two DST tests that call next_fire_time

Added tests: invalid-tz fail-fast (core + ticker), validate_schedule_config cron accept/empty-reject.

Skipped (with reason)

• Real agentic test — The scheduling tool is deterministic infrastructure (persistence/timezone plumbing), not model-driven behaviour; the existing direct-call, config-store, YAML, and CLI surface tests fully cover it. Adding a live-LLM agent.start() test here adds flakiness and cost without covering new logic. Deliberately omitted to keep the package lightweight.

Validation

• test_schedule_timezone.py — 10 passed (incl. new invalid-tz test)
• test_timezone_surface.py — 5 passed (incl. new cron-validator + ticker tests)
• Remaining suite failures in the runner are pre-existing env gaps (pydantic, pytest-asyncio, dotenv), unrelated to this change.

Files modified: config_store.py, shared.py, yaml_loader.py, test_schedule_timezone.py, test_timezone_surface.py

All blocking correctness issues resolved. LGTM to merge.

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@claude CI failed on HEAD 58ae5215. Please fix the failures below and push to this branch.

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• github-actions / test-core — https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/actions/runs/31700531402/job/94450010887
• github-actions / test-core (subdirs) — https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/actions/runs/31700531402/job/94448553194

Failures (extracted)

1. tests/unit/scheduler/test_timezone_surface.py::test_schedule_ticker_uses_timezone_across_dst — assert False is True
   • Job: test-core (subdirs)

Critical review first

Before changing code or tests, decide which side is wrong:

1. Legitimate feature change — the PR intent is correct but implementation or tests need updating. Preserve SDK guarantees; update tests only when behaviour intentionally changed and document why.
2. Regression / bug in this PR — the failure exposes a real breakage introduced here. Fix the implementation; do not weaken, skip, or delete tests just to go green.
3. Pre-existing flake or unrelated failure — say so explicitly; prefer fixing the root cause over masking it.

SDK guardrails (AGENTS.md):

• Agent-callable tools → PraisonAI-Tools; lifecycle plugins → PraisonAI-Plugins; sandbox backends → PraisonAI-Plugins (praisonai.sandbox) — not praisonaiagents/.
• Do not disturb core SDK contracts to accommodate a wrapper/feature change.
• Tests must continue to guard backward compatibility and hot-path behaviour — passing CI by lowering test standards is not acceptable.
• If the feature does not genuinely add SDK value, recommend reverting or narrowing scope instead of patching around failures.

What to do

1. State your verdict: legitimate fix, regression fix, or needs human review — and why (1–3 sentences).
2. Fix root cause with minimal changes; never bloat the Agent class with extra params.
3. Run failing tests locally, e.g. pytest tests/unit/scheduler/test_timezone_surface.py::test_schedule_ticker_uses_timezone_across_dst -q, plus any related SDK tests touched by the PR.
4. Push to this branch and comment: files changed, review verdict, and why tests still protect SDK behaviour.

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CI Failure Fix — PR #3894 (Scheduler Timezone) ✅

• Read failing test test_schedule_ticker_uses_timezone_across_dst
• Read scheduler timezone implementation (shared.py, due.py)
• Reproduce failure locally
• Determine verdict & fix root cause
• Run tests & push (6d30f4678)

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Verdict: legitimate fix (test needs to guard an optional dependency)

The failure is not a regression in the feature logic — the core next_fire_time cron/DST math is correct (verified: 0 8 * * * in America/New_York → next fire 12:00 UTC after the 2026‑03‑08 spring‑forward, so is_due(11:59)→False, is_due(12:00)→True).

Root cause: the test-core (subdirs) shard installs praisonaiagents[knowledge] + wrapper extras but not the optional croniter engine (croniter is declared in no pyproject.toml — it's genuinely optional). Without it, ScheduleTicker.is_due catches the ImportError from next_fire_time and degrades to a coarse interval → returns False, so line 22's assert ... is True failed with assert False is True.

The core DST test already guards this with pytest.importorskip("croniter"); the wrapper DST test omitted it. This is a genuine wall-clock cron assertion that only holds when the engine is present.

Fix (minimal, no assertion weakened)

Added pytest.importorskip("croniter") inside the single cron-dependent DST test — matching the core test's guard and CodeRabbit's guidance to scope the skip to cron tests only. The assertion itself is unchanged; it simply skips when the optional engine is absent instead of asserting behaviour that engine provides.

Files modified:

• src/praisonai/tests/unit/scheduler/test_timezone_surface.py — guard DST ticker test on croniter

Rebased onto b595f04f6 (prior architecture-review fixes) cleanly — no conflicts; the new test_validate_schedule_config_accepts_cron and test_schedule_ticker_rejects_invalid_timezone are preserved.

Validation

Environment	Result
With croniter	5 passed
Without croniter (matches CI subdirs shard)	4 passed, 1 skipped — no more assert False is True

Why this still protects SDK behaviour

• The DST correctness assertion is fully retained and runs wherever croniter is installed (core test tier + any env with the engine).
• No SDK contract changed: cron timing still requires the documented optional croniter engine; UTC fallback and explicit-offset behaviour are untouched.
• Backward compatibility guards (invalid-tz fail-fast, cron validator) added in the prior commit remain and run unconditionally.

No source/Agent changes — test-only guard for an optional dependency.

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Verdict: legitimate fix. The failure was caused by the wrapper DST assertion running without the optional croniter engine; the implementation correctly degrades when that dependency is absent, so the cron-specific test now uses a local dependency guard without weakening its assertions.

Fixed on the current branch:

• bb34a3c5: scoped croniter gating to the wrapper DST test that requires it.
• aafe3ea4: fail-fast timezone validation in the config store and cron ticker, cron: YAML validation, focused regressions, and smoke/live-agentic schedule-tool coverage.

Validation:

• pytest -q src/praisonai-agents/tests/unit/test_schedule_timezone.py — 11 passed, 1 live-agentic test skipped (opt-in/key not enabled).
• pytest -q src/praisonai/tests/unit/scheduler/test_timezone_surface.py — 5 passed with croniter; without it only the DST case is skipped.

The DST assertion remains unchanged and still runs whenever its optional engine is installed; non-cron timezone, YAML, persistence, and fail-fast tests remain unconditional.

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@claude robust validation again , SDK value, scope creep test and fix all issues if any

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Final Validation & Scope Review — PR #3894 (Scheduler Timezone) ✅

• Read AGENTS.md + changed scheduler files
• Critical review: SDK value & scope creep
• Run core + wrapper timezone tests
• Fix any remaining issues
• Push & summarize

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Verdict: Approve — no code changes needed

I independently re-reviewed all 11 changed files and re-ran both test suites. Every prior reviewer finding (CodeRabbit ×4) is fixed and holds up. No blocking issues remain; adding further code would be scope creep.

SDK value ✅ (genuine correctness fix, not a feature knob)

Cron and naive one-shot schedules now evaluate in their configured IANA zone with DST-correct math (due.py:35-50, due.py:74-120). This is a real bug fix — UTC stays the fallback, explicit offsets are preserved, and tz is optional on every surface. No new Agent params; wiring is scheduler-local.

Scope / routing ✅ (AGENTS.md compliant)

• Core (praisonaiagents/scheduler/): timezone resolution + parsing + protocol-level due-checks only.
• Wrapper (praisonai/scheduler/, CLI, YAML): heavy/optional-dep wiring, croniter best-effort interval collapse.
• Agent-callable schedule_add correctly lives in praisonaiagents/tools/ with tenant-isolation guarding (schedule_tools.py:26-51). Correct core-vs-wrapper split throughout.

Fail-fast validation ✅ (verified)

• config_store._load re-raises invalid scheduler.timezone/.tz (config_store.py:346-357).
• ScheduleTicker.__init__ validates cron tz before fallback handlers can mask it (shared.py:66-70).
• validate_schedule_config accepts non-empty cron: and rejects empty (yaml_loader.py:203-218).

Test results

Suite	Result
test_schedule_timezone.py (core)	11 passed, 1 skipped (live-agentic, key-gated)
test_timezone_surface.py (wrapper)	8 passed (with croniter + typer + pytest-asyncio)

Reviewed, deliberately not changed (avoiding scope creep)

• Codecov 1 missing line — shared.py:132, the croniter-absent fallback in seconds_until_next. It's documented defensive degradation; a test would require mocking an optional import (brittle) for a non-logic branch. Not worth the added surface.
• shared.py:105 inner except ImportError — effectively unreachable (outer guard at :96 already ensures croniter present) but harmless defensive code. Left as-is.
• Live-agentic test — already present and env-gated (RUN_REAL_KEY_TESTS/OPENAI_API_KEY); correct for a paid-LLM path.

Files modified this run: none — validation-only. All correctness, backward-compat, and scope guarantees hold. LGTM to merge.

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