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Crontab Generator

Build a cron expression and read it back in plain English.

0-59
0-23
1-31
1-12
0-6
Cron expression
0 9 * * 1-5

At 09:00 AM, Monday through Friday

Cron expression syntax

A standard cron expression has five fields — minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week — where * means "every", */5 means "every 5", and ranges/lists like 1-5 or 1,3,5 are allowed. The plain-English description is generated in your browser.

Related: the cron parser (explain an existing expression), the Unix timestamp converter, and the time duration calculator.

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