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Cron Expression Explainer
Type a cron expression and read it back as a sentence, with the next several run times worked out so you can see whether it fires when you think it does. Handles ranges, steps, lists, and the day-of-month/day-of-week overlap that trips almost everyone. Build one from menus if you would rather not remember the field order.
minute hour day month weekday
In plain English
At 09:00 on weekdays.
Next 6 runsUTC · local
- 2026-08-17 09:00:00 UTCAug 17, 2026, 09:00:00 AM UTC· in 2 days
- 2026-08-18 09:00:00 UTCAug 18, 2026, 09:00:00 AM UTC· in 3 days
- 2026-08-19 09:00:00 UTCAug 19, 2026, 09:00:00 AM UTC· in 4 days
- 2026-08-20 09:00:00 UTCAug 20, 2026, 09:00:00 AM UTC· in 5 days
- 2026-08-21 09:00:00 UTCAug 21, 2026, 09:00:00 AM UTC· in 6 days
- 2026-08-24 09:00:00 UTCAug 24, 2026, 09:00:00 AM UTC· next week
Field reference
- Minute
- 0–59
- Hour
- 0–23
- Day of month
- 1–31
- Month
- 1–12JAN–DEC
- Day of week
- 0–6SUN–SAT, 7 = Sun
Operators: * any, a-b range, a,b,c list, and a slash for steps — a wildcard or range followed by /n takes every nth value.
Method & assumptions
- Standard 5-field cron: minute, hour, day-of-month, month, day-of-week. Seconds and the non-standard 6th field are not parsed.
- When both day-of-month and day-of-week are restricted, the job fires when EITHER matches — the Vixie-cron rule, which surprises almost everyone.
- Times are computed in UTC, because a cron line carries no zone of its own, then shown in UTC and your local time side by side.
- Everything runs in your browser. The expression is never sent anywhere.
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