Spring Cron scheduler “disable pattern”

Question

My application loads some cron patterns from a properties file. I\'m using the @Scheduled annotation like this:

@Scheduled(cron = "${config.         


        

Answer 1

If it was a cron expression, you could have used below which makes the cron run on 2099

59 59 23 31 12 ? 2099

But spring scheduler does not take a year as input. This is what I have found to defer it for some extended period. Below will run on 29 Feb which will be a leap year.

0 0 0 29 2 ?