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Build, translate, and preview a 5-field cron schedule. See a human description and the next run times.
At minute 0 past hour 9 on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
2026-09-24 09:00:00 UTC 2026-09-25 09:00:00 UTC 2026-09-28 09:00:00 UTC 2026-09-29 09:00:00 UTC 2026-09-30 09:00:00 UTC
A Unix cron expression has five fields: minute, hour, day of month, month, and day of week. This tool expands *, ranges, lists, and steps, then lists the next five matching times in UTC. Named months, @daily shortcuts, seconds fields, and Quartz tokens such as L, W, and # are reported instead of guessed.
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