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Cron next runs by timezone

Preview five-field numeric cron schedules in an IANA timezone and compare local and UTC run times.

Runs on your device · No upload

Five numeric fields only; no seconds field, year, named weekdays, macros, L, W, #, ? or hashed schedules. Preview 1–50 runs. Start time requires an explicit offset.

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How to use it

  1. Enter minute, hour, day-of-month, month and day-of-week fields.
  2. Choose the scheduler timezone and an unambiguous starting instant.
  3. Preview future run times in local time and UTC.

A named cron interpretation

This preview uses cron-parser with a five-field numeric expression. Seconds are fixed at zero. It supports asterisk, comma-separated lists, hyphenated ranges and slash steps. Keep either day-of-month or day-of-week as an asterisk so the result does not depend on differing AND/OR conventions.

Timezone changes can affect a schedule

A daily wall-clock schedule is different from a fixed UTC interval. The preview uses the IANA timezone and cron-parser’s handling of daylight-saving changes. Scheduler products can differ on skipped and repeated clock times, so compare with the system that will actually execute the job.

This page previews a schedule only. It never creates, installs or runs a cron job.

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