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Cron Expression Examples

Cron uses five fields: minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week. Below are common schedules you can adapt for servers, CI, or cloud job runners.

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Useful presets

• * * * * * — every minute
• 0 * * * * — every hour at minute 0
• 0 0 * * * — every day at midnight
• 0 0 * * 0 — every Sunday at midnight
• 0 0 1 * * — first day of each month at midnight
• */15 * * * * — every 15 minutes

Timezone reminder

Cron usually runs in the host timezone unless your platform documents otherwise. Always confirm timezone settings for GitHub Actions, Kubernetes CronJobs, and cloud schedulers.

Related tools

• Timestamp Converter for epoch ↔ human dates
• Regex Tester for validating schedule-related strings