Spring scheduled cron job running too many times

Question

My job is running every at the time specified but its running every second of time specified, for example if I set a job to run at 22:54 it will run every second from 22:54:00 until 22:54:59. I want it to just run once at the time specified...any help is much appreciated

my code:

@Scheduled(cron = "* 54 22 * * ?")
    public void getCompaniess() {
         System.out.println(new Date()+" > Running testScheduledMethod...");

    }

output: Thu Mar 12 22:54:00 GMT 2020 > Running testScheduledMethod... Thu Mar 12 22:54:01 GMT 2020 > Running testScheduledMethod... ..... Thu Mar 12 22:54:59 GMT 2020 > Running testScheduledMethod...

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 12 '20 at 23:13

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Change the first * to 0, with a star you are saying "every second".

Replacing it with a 0 (or any other number 0-59) will have it run on that "second" instead of "all of them".

answered Mar 12 '20 at 23:13

Will Hartung

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This worked, I've been pulling my hair our trying to figure out the issue. Thank you – Carl Mar 12 '20 at 23:36

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 12 '20 at 23:20

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@Scheduled(cron = "0 54 22 * * ?")
public void getCompaniess() {
    System.out.println(new Date()+" > Running testScheduledMethod...");
}

answered Mar 12 '20 at 23:20

Ilya Lysenko

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Here you can find another samples of schedule: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26147044/spring-cron-expression-for-every-day-101am – Ilya Lysenko Mar 12 '20 at 23:23

Spring scheduled cron job running too many times

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