celery, what happens to apply_async if eta is past?

Question

It's hard to debug it to find out myself.

What happens if eta is past when you call apply_async() ?

silently drops it? executes it because it should have been in the past?

Answer 1

I just tested this on our setup, eta in the past definitely works. Celery does not drop the task - It gets executed more or less immediately. Hope this helps!