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Click-to-build cron schedules with live plain-English preview.
⏰ Standard 5-field Vixie cron syntax — works in crontab, GitHub Actions (with minute granularity), Kubernetes CronJobs, and most schedulers. Quartz users: prepend a seconds field.
Minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week, each accepting *, lists, ranges, and */N steps. The description line beneath the expression is generated by our own cron engine, so what you read is what schedulers will do.
Day-of-month and day-of-week combine with OR when both are restricted (standard Vixie behavior) — a rule people trip over constantly. Also: cron has no timezone field; servers run UTC unless configured otherwise.
The presets cover 90% of real schedules: every N minutes, hourly at :MM, daily/weekdays/weekly at a fixed time. Anything more exotic belongs in a proper cron editor with validation — copy this output into one.
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