Crontab Schedule

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There are five input boxes representing the Cron values: Minute, Hour, DOM (day of month), Month, and DOW (day of week).

You can type numbers in each input box as well as the characters: ‘*’ (asterisk), ‘-’ (dash), ‘/’ (forward-slash), and ‘,’ (comma).

Numbers represent temporal value, e.g. 1 in the Min input box represent: ‘At minute 1.’

‘*’ (asterisk) represent ‘every’. Therefore by setting ‘*’ in the Min input box represents every minute, and ‘*’ in the Hour input box represents every hour, and so on.

You can use ranges with ‘-’ (dash), e.g. ‘* * 15-20 * *’ would mean: ‘At every minute on every day-of-month from 15 through 20.’

You can use ‘/’ (forward-slash), e.g. ‘* * * 6/2 *’ would mean: ‘At every minute in every 2nd month from June through December.’

Finally, you can add multiple times with ‘,’ (comma), e.g. ‘* * * * 2,4,6’ would mean: ‘At every minute on Tuesday,Thursday, and Saturday.’

This will be the cron expression to use as an entry in your crontab file.

‘0 0 1 1 *’ will give: ‘At minute 0 past hour 0 on day-of-month 1 in January’, i.e. midnight on New Years Eve.

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To help with understanding the expression, we have included a english description of the result.

You can read more about Cron on WikiPedia.