Setting CronTrigger start and end times with minutes - cron

Is it possible to specify start and end time for CronTrigger with minutes also?
For instance:
"0/5 * 12-18 * * ?" would fire every 5 seconds from 12:00 to 18:00. However, I want to set up trigger which would start at 12:30, ends at 18:55 everyday and fires every 20 minutes. How should I do it?

How about using DailyTimeIntervalTrigger as a scheduler and create two jobs.
JavaDoc DailyTimeIntervaltrigger

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Cron Schedule for a job that runs every minute from 8 am to 7:30 pm

I can't figure out how to create a job that ends at a specific hour and minute
If you break your cronjob into two, it would look like:
* 8-19 * * * command
0-30/1 19 * * * command
first line runs every minute from 8-19, and second line every minute from 19-19:30.
Cron triggers are not quite suitable for these types of schedules. If you do not insist on using a Cron trigger, I recommend that you check the Daily Time Interval trigger that is designed for use-cases such as yours. I am attaching a screenshot of a Daily Time Interval Trigger configuration for your use-case.

How to execute a cron expression for every 2.5 min

I want to create a cron expression which will run the scheduler every 2.5 min of every hour. e.g. 2.5min, 5.0min, 7.5min, 10.0min etc. of every hour.
I am using Spring to create the scheduler. I tried various combination but nothing worked. One of them is as below but it is not working.
#Scheduled(cron = "*/30 */2 * * * *")
Thanks in advance.
That should works for you
0 0/5 0 ? * * *
30 2/5 0 ? * * *
At second :00, every 5 minutes starting at minute :00, at 00am, of every day
At second :30, every 5 minutes starting at minute :02, at 00am, of every day
You are right in this case you need to schedule your task twice using expression like on example.
There is a danger of becoming fixated on the 30 seconds. My problem was that I needed to check 18000 records for updates every month ~ 1 record every 2.5 minutes. I spent too much time trying techniques to run a job at exactly 02:32:30 before I realised that accuracy was not important.
In my situation, I realised I could execute every 2 minutes, updating my full database every 25 days instead of every 31 days.
Alternatively, I could have had 2 cron jobs running every 5 minutes. First, a 2-minute gap, followed by a 3-minute gap.
02:30 02:32 02:35 02:37 02:40 02:42 02:45 02:47
My point is that when the cron job is live, it runs unseen. Obviously, everyone has their own specific problem, but before introducing complexity, consider if it is necessary. As long as the job executes, does it really matter the exact time it ran?

Azure function CRON Schedule expression

If I wish to run my function app at 11.15 PM to next day 1.15 AM(That mean MONDAY 11.15 PM start and TUESDAY 1.15 AM will end) and it will trigger every minute during this time.
Can anyone help me to write this CRON expression?
The timer triggers are designed for a single repeating interval. The only way to do this completely within a Function is to run the trigger once per minute, then abort if the current time isn't in the desired target time period.
Alternately, put your logic into an HTTP trigger configured to act as a webhook, then use an Azure scheduler to configure start and stop times and intervals.
You won't be able to use the scheduler free plan since it can only run once per hour, but the standard plan can run once per minute. Scheduler pricing here.
You'll have to do this in three lines I think,
15-59 23 * * *
* 0 * * *
0-15 1 * * *
This will run it from 23:15-23:59 then 00:00-00:59 then 1:00-1:15

How to run every 25 minutes every day from 9 AM to 5 PM in Quartz scheduler?

I am using the Quartz Scheduling and I've tried to create a trigger that starts every day at 9 AM until 5 PM, every 25 minutes. It should like that:
9:00, 9:25, 9:50, 10:15, 10:40, 11:05, etc
The final quarts expression looks like that:
0 0/25 9-17 * * ? *
But the execution looks like that:
9:00, 9:25, 9:50, 10:00, 10:25, 10:50, 11:00, etc
There is any way to reach this schedule:
9:00, 9:25, 9:50, 10:15, 10:40, 11:05, etc
or I should change quartz?
Thank you!
Actually this question is similar to Cron expression to be executed every 45 minutes SO question.
Cron expression will not allow you to do that as it defines the exact date and times, when a trigger must be fired. And setup like your actually means "fire every 25 minutes, starting at minute 0 of every hour".
You can achive what you want by using SimpleTrigger with .WithIntervalInMinutes(25) configuration.
SimpleTrigger should meet your scheduling needs if you need to have a job execute exactly once at a specific moment in time, or at a specific moment in time followed by repeats at a specific interval.
P.S. Your cron expression will work for 20 minutes (0 0/20 9-17 * * ? *), as 60 is a multiple of 20. Just in case changing interval is not critical to you)
P.S.2 To be honest you can use Cron expressions if setup few trigger for different intervals, but that is useless. Anyway look onto this SO answer

Is there any way to specify periods with cron without setting up multiple instances?

I want a cron job to run between 7 AM and 10 PM, every day, at 5 minute intervals. Normally this would be okay if it was 5 minute intervals, because you could just use "/5", but is there a way to specify it as 5 minute intervals but skip the times between 10PM and 7AM?
The minutes are specified separately from the hours in crontab. Specify minutes using the periodic notation, and the hours as a range.
*/5 7-21 * * * /path/to/script
Below would help for Quartz scheduler
0 00/5 7-21 * * ?

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