cron expression explainer

Turn a 5-field cron expression into plain English and the next five run times, with @daily-style shortcuts. Runs entirely in your browser.

cron expression (5 fields: minute hour day month weekday)

Meaning

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Next 5 runs (local time)

Computed locally. Weekday 0 and 7 both mean Sunday, and the OR semantics when both day-of-month and weekday are restricted follow real cron rules. · Try:

What this shows

Plain meaning — what the five fields (minute hour day month weekday) actually say.
Next runs — the next five times it will fire, in your local timezone.
Shortcuts — @daily, @hourly, @weekly and friends.

Related reading: systemd timers vs cron, and scheduling on a small box.