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Cron Expression Explainer
Five fields in, a sentence and the next ten fire times out. The sentence is a summary; the fire times are computed from the expression itself, so where they disagree, believe the times.
Expression
Try one
Field order
minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week
0–59, 0–23, 1–31, 1–12, 0–7 (0 and 7 are both Sunday). Names work too: JAN–DEC and SUN–SAT. Supported operators are *, ,, - and /, plus the @yearly @monthly @weekly @daily @hourly shortcuts.
0–59, 0–23, 1–31, 1–12, 0–7 (0 and 7 are both Sunday). Names work too: JAN–DEC and SUN–SAT. Supported operators are *, ,, - and /, plus the @yearly @monthly @weekly @daily @hourly shortcuts.
Schedule
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Next fire
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Then again in
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Next ten fire times
On day-of-month and day-of-week
When both are restricted, standard cron runs the job if either
matches, not both. 0 0 1 * 1 fires on the first of the month
and on every Monday. This surprises people often enough that the
fire times below are the safest way to check what you actually wrote.
Times are computed in this browser's timezone, using its own DST rules.