Run Quartz Scheduler Job with specific start, end date and within time constraints

Question

I am using Quartz-Scheduler for repetitive tasks but I am facing a trouble. In my server side my user wants to specify some date range like From 2013-

Answer 1

What is the error you get when you say it is not working?

You can try the following code (Edit: applies to Quartz 2.2). This approach does not specify the start/end dates and year in the cron expression, instead uses the Trigger methods to specify them. (Note: I haven't tested it myself, let me know if it works for you)

Edit: I had the chance to test this code, I ran the code below and kept changing the system clock and all triggers were successful between 9 am to 12 am from start to end date.

public class CronJob {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException, SchedulerException {

        Scheduler scheduler = StdSchedulerFactory.getDefaultScheduler();

        JobDetail job = newJob(TestJob.class)
            .withIdentity("cronJob", "testJob") 
            .build();

        String startDateStr = "2013-09-27 00:00:00.0";
        String endDateStr = "2013-09-31 00:00:00.0";

        Date startDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S").parse(startDateStr);
        Date endDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S").parse(endDateStr);

        CronTrigger cronTrigger = newTrigger()
          .withIdentity("trigger1", "testJob")
          .startAt(startDate)
          .withSchedule(CronScheduleBuilder.cronSchedule("0 0 9-12 * * ?").withMisfireHandlingInstructionDoNothing())
          .endAt(endDate)
          .build();

        scheduler.scheduleJob(job, cronTrigger);
        scheduler.start();
    }    

    public static class TestJob implements Job {
        @Override
        public void execute(JobExecutionContext context) throws JobExecutionException {
            System.out.println("this is a cron scheduled test job");
        }        
    }
}

If the above code does not work, try to replace the cronSchedule("0 0 9-12 * * ?") with cronSchedule("0 0 9-12 ? * ?")