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Standard cron syntax

Cron uses five space-separated fields. They describe when a task is eligible to run: minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week.

Field ranges

• minute: 0 through 59
• hour: 0 through 23
• day of month: 1 through 31
• month: 1 through 12
• day of week: 0 through 7 (Sunday is 0 or 7)

Operators

* means every possible value. A comma selects values, so 1,15 selects the 1st and 15th. A hyphen selects a range: 9-17. A slash sets an interval: */10 means every ten units.

Examples

• 0 * * * * — at the start of every hour
• 30 8 * * 1-5 — 8:30 AM on weekdays
• 0 0 1 1 * — midnight on January 1

Implementations differ. This tool targets the common five-field format; check your scheduler’s documentation for named months, named weekdays, seconds, or special shortcuts.

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