No matter where you run the job from, you run it in the required timezone, not UTC, and you still have the issue with what to do with the change in the local timezone.
This isn't a problem that can be solved with a single technical solution.
And not the locals - as the local community can't sustain that amount of building. People come in temporarily while the work goes, then leave. This adds more pressure on the local community for again very little gain.
It certainly is, but that's a business question, not a technical question
If the business requires it to run at 01:30 and there are two per day, or zero per day, then the business rules needs to define what happens. You can't solve this by running it at UTC.
And very few people work there relative to the impact. Sure nobody liked living near factories in ye olden days, but they did like the employment opportunities.
You can see how few work there when you compare the size of the data centre and the size of the car park.
How about I use some form of library to do it. I tell it I want to run at 0800 London time, and it runs at 0800 London time
If I tell it I want to run at 0130 London time (or 0330 Athens time) I still have a problem -- do I run it twice when the clocks go back, do I skip it when clocks go forward?
But that's a business logic problem, and defining it as UTC and having another job to update the time twice a year doesn't actually solve the question of "what do I do at this point".
If I want a report of what happened at a specific time I need that report at local time
I get a daily status report of various things from our 24 hour operational management team which runs at 8am UK time every day. That means last week it ran at 0700UTC and this week at 0800UTC
This is built around operational events, shift changes, etc.
I've got another system which is in operation in Sydney from 0630 to 1630 local time, this means that maintence windows which overlap with UK shift patterns depend on the week but mean the system is operating 2130-0730 UK time at some times, 2030-0630 UK at others, and 1930-0530 at others.
UTC is not "the answer". Sometimes you want things running at a UTC time, sometimes you want them running at local time.
I have a regular meeting at 10am London time on Tuesday and Thursday. That can't be stored in UTC as it varies depending on the time of the year. It has to have the timezone stored and actioned.
I'm not convinced something that's been tried multiple times on and off in the UK (last time ID cards were being brought in - by Labour and the 2006 act - it was cancelled by the coalition), and happens in many countries, is a "conspiracy theory"
Who exactly is conspiring and what exactly are they conspiring for?
In 1999 I paid (inflation adjusted) $20 per episode in DS9
If you are only wiling to pay 10 cents then that's a major problem - viewing figures just aren't that high any more. A modern scifi show would need 100 million viewers to cover the production budget at 10 cents a person
The post popular scripted show on US TV - George and Mindy - gets about 5-6 million viewers when it's on for free. At 10c/episode or $2 for the year that would be $10m for the entire season. TV costs a lot more than that to produce.
In the 90s we clamoured for being able to subscribe to what we want rather than a single
We broadly have that now.
I subscribe to Youtube, Spotify, Netflix, Disney, Apple, Paramount, BBC. Only Apple and BBC force adverts on me, and Apple I'll be cancelling because of it. I keep BBC more out of moral reasons as I think it's a net good for the UK.
The monthly cost is very reasonable to me, inflation wise its about the same as I paid for BBC and Sky in the 90s.
Last night we wanted to watch the 2012 Les Mis film, £3.50 to rent it from Apple. In the 90s, inflation adjusted, it cost £8 to rent the tape.
If I can subscribe to watch something without adverts, I will. If I can buy or rent it, I will.
If I can't do that though, then I'll get it elsewhere.
I would hope that data centre has multiple power supplies from multiple locations - as well as UPS and on site generators, certainly mine do.
However given AWS is so complex (which is required because they want to be a gatekeeping platform) leading the uptime to struggle to match a decent home setup, I'm not sure. I'm sure there's no 6 figure bonus for checking the generators are working, but a rounded corner on a button on an admin page?
Depends how strong the protections of your civil society is, but it doesn't cost $1m to send a goon with a crowbar or shotgun. Sure that doesn't scale, but if you are a target you're screwed