Agenda: Can't schedule yearly jobs with cron

[ruslanjur]

Hello,

I'm trying to create a job that is supposed to repeat once a year on a specific date.
My cron interval looks like this: 0 16 13 8 *
Once the job is executed its nextRunAt is set not a year later but a month later.

Here's how I schedule the job

        this._agenda.jobs({name: jobId}, (err, job1) => {
            if (job1 && job1.length === 0) {
                this._agenda.define('someJobId', (job: Agenda.Job, done: (err?: Error) => void) => {
                    this._doJobs('someJobId', job, done).then().catch(e => {
                        Promise.reject(e);
                    });
                });
                let job = this._agenda.create(jobId, jobInfo)
                    .schedule(new Date())
                    .repeatEvery('0 16 13 8 *', {
                        timezone: 'America/Toronto',
                        skipImmediate: true
                    });
                job.save();
            } else if (!err) { /* print error message */ });

And here's how it looks like in mongo after it's executed once:

I could be missing something obvious and would appreciate your help.

Thank you

[gianpaj]

That's because 0 16 13 8 * is At 16:00 on day-of-month 13 in August
https://crontab.guru/#0_16_13_8_*

EDIT: never mind. you might be right. what happens if you remove the skipImmediate: true?

[ruslanjur]

Tried without skipImmediate: true. nextRunAt is set on the same day and time of the next month
The following is after the "yearly" job has ran once

[ldsmike88]

This seems to be the same as this issue https://github.com/agenda/agenda/issues/358 ...

from 2016!

I would think this would be an extremely high priority issue since this is base functionality. Do we know if a fix is in progress or expected soon?

[leonardlin]

https://github.com/agenda/agenda/pull/1150 merged