Cron for the 1st and 15th at 9am
0 9 1,15 * *At 09:00 AM, on day 1 and 15 of the month
What this schedule does
0 9 1,15 * * runs at 09:00 on the 1st and 15th. Payroll and mid-month reports use this pair because it is simpler than two separate crontabs.
Next 5 runs (UTC)
Times below are computed for UTC. Open the builder to preview another timezone.
- Tue, 01 Sept 2026, 09:00 UTC
- Tue, 15 Sept 2026, 09:00 UTC
- Thu, 01 Oct 2026, 09:00 UTC
- Thu, 15 Oct 2026, 09:00 UTC
- Sun, 01 Nov 2026, 09:00 UTC
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GitHub Actions
UTC only. Quote the expression so YAML keeps the stars.
on:
schedule:
- cron: '0 9 1,15 * *'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 1,15 * *"
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 1,15 * ? *)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 1,15 * *Vercel Cron
{
"crons": [
{
"path": "/api/cron",
"schedule": "0 9 1,15 * *"
}
]
}crontab
0 9 1,15 * * /usr/local/bin/jobnode-cron
import cron from 'node-cron';
cron.schedule('0 9 1,15 * *', () => {
// job
});Spring @Scheduled
Spring uses 6 fields by default (seconds first) unless you set spring.task.scheduling.cron.expression.
@Scheduled(cron = "0 0 9 1,15 * *")
public void run() {
// job
}