Immediate Execution of ScheduledTask with Cron Expression on Creation

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I notice that when I create my scheduled task for the first time at application startup, it executes immediately even though it was created with a cron expression many hours in the future. Is this normal behavior? Is there a way to prevent that? If i would use the RunAfter with the same datetime of the next cron execution, will it fire twice? Or I could find the next cron execution and then prevent it from running if it is now yet the time?

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You would need to set the Scheduled Task’s LastRun in the db, something like:

IBackgroundJobs jobs = feature.Jobs; // or IOC
using var dbJobs = jobs.OpenDb();
dbJobs.UpdateOnly(() => new ScheduledTask {
      LastRun = DateTime.UtcNow,
}, where:x => x.Name == taskName);