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Cron Expression Helper

Paste a standard 5-field cron expression and read what it actually means, in plain English.

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Fields, in order: minute ยท hour ยท day-of-month ยท month ยท day-of-week.

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A cron expression has five fields โ€” minute, hour, day-of-month, month, and day-of-week โ€” each accepting a number, a * wildcard, a a-b range, a , list, or a */n step. 0 9 * * 1-5reads as "at 09:00, Monday through Friday." This helper covers that common 5-field syntax.

One classic gotcha: when both day-of-month and day-of-week are set, most cron implementations treat them as or, not andโ€” the job runs when either matches. And remember the schedule follows the server's timezone, which is often UTC.

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