Cron Expression Explainer
Turn a 5-field crontab line into plain English for your scheduled jobs.
Means—
Fields: minute · hour · day-of-month · month · day-of-week.
Turn a five-field crontab line into plain English so you know exactly when your scheduled jobs will run.
Turn a 5-field crontab line into plain English for your scheduled jobs.
Fields: minute · hour · day-of-month · month · day-of-week.
Stop second-guessing your crontab — see exactly what a schedule means before you deploy it.
Describes the minute, hour, day, month and weekday fields as one readable sentence.
Understands */15, ranges, lists and named months and weekdays.
One-click common schedules — every minute, hourly, daily and weekly — to start from.
Flags malformed fields so you catch mistakes before they hit your scheduler.
Enter your expression — five fields: minute, hour, day-of-month, month, day-of-week.
Read the description that appears, or start from a preset and tweak it.
Paste it into your crontab or scheduler once it says what you intend.
Everything you might wonder about this tool.
* means every value, */5 means every 5th, 1-5 is a range, and 1,3,5 is a list. The explainer turns these into words for you.Host your Discord or Telegram bot 24/7 on AMD EPYC — free tier, no card required.
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