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Cron Builder & Explainer
Paste a cron expression, get the plain-English sentence and the next fire times, with dialect and timezone explicit.
Common schedules
Fire times are computed live in your browser against the current moment, they appear here once the page loads, never baked in.
- The dialect is explicit: five fields (minute hour dom month dow) or six with a seconds field first. A 6-field expression under the 5-field dialect is an error naming both counts. Never a guess.
- The timezone is part of the question, not a display detail: the same expression fires at different instants in different zones, so fire times are computed in the zone you name (cron-parser's tz) and shown in it (Intl).
- Day-of-month × day-of-week is the Vixie OR rule: when BOTH are restricted (neither is *), a date matching EITHER fires. Every other field combination is an AND: the badge above says when the OR rule applied.
- The sentence is cronstrue's, labeled as its own output; the fire times are cron-parser's. Two engines, two jobs, neither blended.
Working
Processing on this device.
waiting for the current moment to be captured in the browser