Cron Expression Generator

Build and explain a standard five-field cron schedule for minute, hour, day of month, month and day of week. Processing takes place locally in your browser.

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Cron Expression Generator

Values use ASCII digits. Supported syntax includes *, comma lists, numeric ranges and slash steps. The field bounds are 0-59, 0-23, 1-31, 1-12 and 0-7; both 0 and 7 denote Sunday. Range endpoints may be equal; steps must be positive finite integers.

The tool rejects seconds fields, month or weekday names, macros and extensions such as @daily, L, W, # and ?. It checks field syntax and bounds, not whether a calendar date exists.

This is a field summary, not a next-run calculation or a scheduled task. Day-of-month and weekday interaction, time zone, daylight saving, commands and shell settings belong to the target scheduler. Test the expression there. Processing stays in this browser. The input limit is 500000 UTF-16 code units.

Processing takes place locally in your browser.

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Cron Expression Generator

Build and validate a five-field Cron expression, then inspect its field summary. Processing starts when you click the button.

Use either the complete expression or the five separate fields. A nonempty complete expression takes priority; clear it to use the separate fields. Editing one form does not update the other.
Enter minute, hour, day of month, month and day of week in that order, then click Start processing. The result shows only the expression actually used and its five fields.
Copy all copies the entire report. Extract the expression itself before putting it into a scheduler. Clear empties all six inputs; enter new values before processing again.

Example: enter 30 9 * * 1-5 in the complete expression field and process it. The summary shows minute 30, hour 9 and weekday 1-5, conventionally Monday to Friday at 09:30 in the target scheduler's time zone.