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    copied!<p>I'm observing a strange behavior scheduling a job in Quartz using a CronTrigger that contains a year value.</p> <p>Here is how I am creating a trigger and scheduling a job with it:</p> <pre><code>CronTrigger trigger = cronJobTriggerFactory.getObject(); trigger.setName(triggerName); trigger.setGroup(triggerGroupName); trigger.setCronExpression(cronSchedule); trigger.setVolatility(false); JobDetail job = schedulableJobFactory.getObject(); job.setName(jobName); job.setGroup(jobGroupName); job.setVolatility(false); job.setDurability(true); Date scheduleTime1 = scheduler.scheduleJob(job, trigger); logger.info(job.getKey() + " will run at: " + scheduleTime1); </code></pre> <p>and then in my unit test I determines the "now" date, add 5 minutes to it, calculate cron expression for this date/time and call my main class schedule a job with this schedule. Here is the out put of the unit test that shows which cron expression is passed :</p> <pre><code>NotificationSchedulerTest - Today is: 9 May 2012 05:32 PM NotificationSchedulerTest - 5 min later is: 9 May 2012 05:37 PM NotificationSchedulerTest - cron schedule is: 0 37 17 * 4 ? 2012 </code></pre> <p>However, when trying to schedule a job with this cron expression - I'm getting the following error:</p> <pre><code>org.quartz.SchedulerException: Based on configured schedule, the given trigger will never fire. </code></pre> <p>As you can see, the date is in the future relative to the date/time I am running the test... So, it should not be a problem with trying to schedule a job to run at a time in the past.</p> <p>Now the next strange thing: notice that I do specify the year value in my cron expression: " 0 37 17 * 4 ? <strong>2012</strong>". </p> <p>If I modify generation of the cron expression and leave the year field as unspecified (since it is optional): " 0 37 17 * 4 ?" Then the scheduling DOES succeed, however, the scheduler shows that the next time the job will fire is in the year 2013! (one year later.... - and of course I cannot wait that long to verify it is fired...):</p> <pre><code>NotificationSchedulerTest - Today is: 9 May 2012 06:11 PM NotificationSchedulerTest - 5 min later is: 9 May 2012 06:16 PM NotificationSchedulerTest - cron schedule is: 0 16 18 * 4 ? ... NotificationScheduler - myJobKey will run at: Mon Apr 01 18:16:00 EDT 2013 </code></pre> <p>Am I missing something in these cron expressions? </p>
 

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