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Quartz cron

Quartz (Java) expressions usually have 6 fields: seconds minutes hours day-of-month month day-of-week, plus an optional year. Special characters L (last), W (nearest weekday), and # (nth weekday) do not exist in standard crontab.

Field format

seconds minutes hours day-of-month month day-of-week [year]

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Gotchas

Can I paste a Linux crontab line into Quartz?
Not as-is. Prepend 0 for seconds and replace * with ? in day-of-month or day-of-week. 0 9 * * 1 becomes 0 0 9 ? * MON.
What does L mean?
Last day of the month (15L is last weekday) or last weekday (6L is last Friday). Standard cron has no L.

Examples

Snippet for Quartz

GitHub Actions

UTC only. Quote the expression so YAML keeps the stars.

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 9 * * 1'

Kubernetes

CronJob spec.schedule. Kubernetes uses the timezone of the kube-controller-manager unless you set .spec.timeZone.

apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: job
spec:
  schedule: "0 9 * * 1"
  jobTemplate:
    spec:
      template:
        spec:
          restartPolicy: OnFailure
          containers:
            - name: job
              image: busybox
              args: ["echo", "run"]

AWS EventBridge

Six fields: minutes hours day-of-month month day-of-week year. Use ? in either day-of-month or day-of-week.

cron(0 9 ? * 1 *)

Quartz

Quartz is seconds-first (6 or 7 fields). Day-of-week names are MON, TUE, … and ? is required in one of the day fields.

0 0 9 * * 1

Vercel Cron

{
  "crons": [
    {
      "path": "/api/cron",
      "schedule": "0 9 * * 1"
    }
  ]
}

crontab

0 9 * * 1 /usr/local/bin/job

node-cron

import cron from 'node-cron';

cron.schedule('0 9 * * 1', () => {
  // job
});

Spring @Scheduled

Spring uses 6 fields by default (seconds first) unless you set spring.task.scheduling.cron.expression.

@Scheduled(cron = "0 0 9 * * 1")
public void run() {
    // job
}

Useful schedules

Other platforms