# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron manual trigger swallowed by timezone repair pass

## Open now

- 0 issues, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- PR #78579: fix(cron): skip TZ migration repair for manual trigger (#78516)
- PR #78620: fix(cron): stop the timezone repair pass from swallowing manual triggers

A bug where triggering a cron job manually via the dashboard was silently discarded when the host timezone differed from UTC, because a timezone repair pass recomputed next_run_at to the next scheduled occurrence. The members include the bug report and related fixes.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.67`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #78516: \[Bug\]: Cron dashboard "Run now" is swallowed on recurring jobs when host TZ != UTC (next_run_at recomputed to next occurrence)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#78579: fix(cron): skip TZ migration repair for manual trigger (#78516)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `cron/jobs.py`, `tests/test_cron_trigger_manually_tz.py`
- **#78620: fix(cron): stop the timezone repair pass from swallowing manual triggers**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `cron/jobs.py`, `tests/cron/test_manual_trigger_tz_repair.py`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `cron`