There are many reasons when a the server is terminated
- The machine where the server is running crashes
- The machines is subject to maintenance, and needsto be shut down and then restored. i.e. operating system upgrade
- There is a new version of ecflow
When this happens, any scheduled task that were due to run over the downtime period are missed.
This has now been fixed in ecflow 5.
When the server is restarted, the checkpoint point is read. We then determine how out of date the suite calendars are with real clock
If they are only out of date by less than an hour, the suites, time attributes will catch up to real time.
Hence any scheduled task over the last hour should run.