Quartz.net StartNow() ignored with DailyAtHourAndMinute()

Question

DailyAtHourAndMinute() works , but why is StartNow() ignored?

TriggerBuilder.Create().WithIdentity("engineTriggerII", engineGroup).StartNow().WithSchedule(CronScheduleBuilder.DailyAtHourAndMinute(0, 0)).Build();

version 2.3.3.0

Answer 1

That is the expected behaviour.

You're telling your trigger to fire every day at midnight so it will never fire now ... unless you're running it at midnight.

I guess you'll have to create 2 triggers to achieve what you want.

You can check when the trigger is scheduled to run using this code:

private static void GetNextXFireTimes(ITrigger trigger, int counts)
{
    var dt = trigger.GetNextFireTimeUtc();

    for (int i = 0; i < (counts-1); i++)
    {
        if (dt == null)
        {
            break;
        }

        Console.WriteLine(dt.Value.ToLocalTime());

        dt = trigger.GetFireTimeAfter(dt);
    }
}

and you can call it after you've scheduled your job:

Scheduler.ScheduleJob(job, trigger);
GetNextXFireTimes(trigger, 100);

and you should see something like this:

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