A cron expression is five (or six) space-separated fields describing minute, hour, day-of-month, month, and day-of-week - for example 0 9 * * MON-FRI runs every weekday at 9am. Reading them at a glance takes practice, which is why a plain-English explanation is useful.
Paste an expression into our Cron Expression Parser to see it explained and the next few run times listed out.
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