Cron explainer
Turn a 5-field cron expression into a sentence and the next UTC run times.
- Five fields only
- No seconds and no @aliases
- Next times are UTC
- Runs in the browser
This runs in your browser. What you type is not uploaded by this tool.
Five fields only. No seconds and no @aliases. Next times are UTC. Next times are UTC.
How to use it
Three steps
- 01
Enter five fields: minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week.
- 02
Read the sentence and the next five UTC times.
- 03
Convert those times yourself if you schedule in another zone.
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Questions
Which dialect is this?
Standard 5-field cron. There is no seconds field and no @daily style alias.
Which time zone are the next runs in?
UTC. A scheduler configured for Asia/Kolkata will fire at a different wall-clock time.