azurerm_automation_schedule is not usable for subsequent terraform runs without updating its start_time to a future time

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Terraform (and AzureRM Provider) Version

Terraform v0.12.20

• provider.azurerm v1.44.0

Affected Resource(s)

• azurerm_automation_schedule

Terraform Configuration Files

resource "azurerm_resource_group" "example" {
  name     = "tfex-automation-account"
  location = "West Europe"
}

resource "azurerm_automation_account" "example" {
  name                = "tfex-automation-account"
  location            = azurerm_resource_group.example.location
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.example.name
  sku_name            = "Basic"
}

resource "azurerm_automation_schedule" "example" {
  name                    = "tfex-automation-schedule"
  resource_group_name     = azurerm_resource_group.example.name
  automation_account_name = azurerm_automation_account.example.name
  frequency               = "Week"
  interval                = 1
  timezone                = "Central Europe Standard Time"
  start_time              = "2020-02-13T11:15:00+02:00"
  description             = "This is an example schedule"
  week_days               = ["Friday"]
}

Debug Output

Panic Output

Expected Behavior

Plan or apply should complete successfully subsequently after initial resource provisioning as start_time is a fixed value and it wasn't changed.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

No changes. Infrastructure is up-to-date.

This means that Terraform did not detect any differences between your
configuration and real physical resources that exist. As a result, no
actions need to be performed.

Actual Behavior

Error: "start_time" is "2020-02-13T11:15:00+02:00" and should be at least "5m0s" in the future

  on main.tf line 13, in resource "azurerm_automation_schedule" "example":
  13: resource "azurerm_automation_schedule" "example" {

Steps to Reproduce

1. terraform init
2. Change start_time to +7-8 minutes from your current time
3. terraform apply
4. Wait for 3+ minutes to get into 5min barrier between specified start_time and your current time or wait for current time to get past start_time
5. terraform plan

Important Factoids

References

• #0000

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