Help with cron scheduling

General Discussion
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So I’m trying to schedule a task with a cron expression with variables. Here’s the command:

schedule ("0 $onMin $onHour ? * $state.dayOfWeek *", switchOn)

Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work. The numbers seem to input into the variables properly, but when I trying to install I get an error saying that it can’t parse the values… then it lists the values. For example:

2:57:36 PM: error Unparseable date: "0 0 20 ? * 1,6 *"

Any ideas?

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Bump…

Anyone have any success with scheduling cron jobs?

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I did use cron in my project here: http://build.smartthings.com/projects/xively/hello-smarter-world/ and it worked.

Your cron expression has seven elements. ST example has only six (no year). It’s supposed to be optional, but who nows?

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Hey @chrisb,
Just found this thread: http://build.smartthings.com/forums/topic/scheduled-cron-job-firing-unexpectedly/
Looks like the cron parser is broken too :[

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Thx Hack for finding those links!