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[Steve G]

Hi @Dan Munns,

I've been able to replicate this, it looks like the day of week and day of month values in the expression are applied with an OR instead of an AND. I'm just looking into the cron package now to see if there's anything we can do about that, will let you know when I have an answer.

Cheers,

Steve

[Dan Munns]

@Steve G thanks

[Steve G]

Hi Dan,

After looking at the code and re-reading the crontab specification, this is working as expected:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/crontab.html

From the examples:

Quote

1. As an example of specifying the two types of days:

   
   0 0 1,15 * 1
   

   would run a command on the first and fifteenth of each month, as well as on every Monday. To specify days by only one field, the other field should be set to "*"; for example:

   
   0 0 * * 1
   

   would run a command only on Mondays.

I may be able to add some extra logic in the tool to cater for your use case though. I'll let you know once I've come up with a solution.

Cheers,

Steve

[Dan Munns]

@Steve G ok thanks. 

The cron tester I used said it would work as I expected.

I guess not all cron is created equal lol

[Steve G]

Hi @Dan Munns,

That's done and released to Github .

There's a new boolean property as part of the Schedule in the config: DayOfMonthANDDayOfWeek

Setting this to false will use the existing crontab standard expression parser. Setting this to true will use the existing parser, but will also check to see if the day of week AND day of month both match before executing the API call.

Let me know how you get on with this.

Cheers,

Steve

[Dan Munns]

@Steve G thanks a lot, very much appreciated.

I'll have a test when I am back in the office tomorrow and let you know how I get on.