BuildUtilities

What is a cron expression?

Five fields, minute, hour, day, month, weekday, that describe when a job should run.

Cron expressions look like `0 9 * * 1-5`: at minute 0 of hour 9, every day, every month, on weekdays (Monday–Friday). In other words, 9am on weekdays.

The format dates back to 1970s Unix. Every modern scheduler. GitHub Actions, Vercel, Kubernetes CronJobs, AWS EventBridge, speaks it.

Special characters: `*` (every), `,` (list), `-` (range), `/` (step). Some systems add a sixth field for seconds or a year field, check your platform's docs.

Every weekday at 9am

0 9 * * 1-5

Related tools

Keep reading

Tip Jar