Cron Expression Explainer

Cron Expression Explainer takes a standard 5 field cron expression and describes in plain English when it will actually run.

Use this before deploying a scheduled job to confirm the expression says what you think it says, or when reading an unfamiliar cron line in someone else's config and wanting a quick translation without counting fields by hand.

This covers standard 5 field cron syntax (minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week) including ranges, steps and lists. Some schedulers support extra fields or nonstandard shorthand like @daily, which this does not attempt to parse.