{
  "id": 10162041,
  "title": "Testing scheduled jobs using faketime",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/27/testing-scheduled-jobs-using-faketime",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-27T07:10:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/jantolentino/testing-scheduled-jobs-using-faketime-2b4l"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Recently, I was tasked with testing some scheduled exports to investigate a defect. Unit tests should have caught it, but something else was going on. I had to simulate a real execution in a container by faking its internal clock. This is where I utilized faketime . faketime is a tool that manipulates system time for a specific program without changing the system's actual time. It works by…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}