Pending Jobs have a Start_Time a Year (or more) into the future
Problem
When I use squeue to look at the scheduled Start_Time for my jobs, those times are one year (or more) into the future
Explanation
This is the expected behaviour ahead of Maintenance activities that requires a system outage and/or a suspension of job activity.
Discussion
As you may have noticed in the MotD (Message of the Day) banner, visible when logging into Pawsey systems,
not every maintenance will require an outage.
For those that do, however, it's important to ensure that no jobs are running during the maintenance window,
and to avoid running jobs being killed without warning, a Reservation is placed on the resources.
This reservation prevents any jobs from starting if their requested runtime would go beyond the start time of the maintenance.
Furthermore, to handle any unexpected issues that might occur during an announced maintenance window — usually
defined by the "Systems at Risk" period (08:00 - 20:00 on the first Tuesday of each month) — maintenance reservations
are created with an extended duration: typically one year.