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cron expression error and cron job not working as expected.

See original GitHub issue

According to the docs

First thing is the cron expression link that you’ve mentioned in the docs results in error with “Unexpected end of expression.”

I used the same cron expression in the code:

And cron runs every second :

Here’s the code for queue, worker and required things :

node version : v11.14.0

"bullmq": "^1.9.0",

Redis:

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Created 3 years ago
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sbleoncommented, Nov 6, 2020

Oh, wow! It’s pretty bad to have that link in the docs. That should definitely be changed.

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sbleoncommented, Nov 5, 2020

@5achinJani, “15 3 * * *” is definitely a valid cron expression: Screen Shot 2020-11-05 at 1 30 20 PM See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

It look like the tool you’re using is trying to evaluate the expression using as a “Quartz cron” expression, which is a non-standard format. (In my opinion, it’s deeply irresponsible of Quartz to use the word “cron” when their formats are not interoperable.)