Paste a cron expression to read it in plain English and see exactly when it will fire next. Saves guessing whether a schedule means every five minutes or five past the hour.
Plain-English description of any cron expression
A list of upcoming run times so you can sanity-check the schedule
Validates the syntax before you commit it to a crontab
Frequently asked questions
What does */5 * * * * mean?
Every five minutes, on every hour, day and month. Paste any expression here for a written explanation and the next run times.
Why did my cron job not run?
Most often the field order is wrong (minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week) or the day-of-week and day-of-month fields conflict. The parser shows the interpreted schedule so you can spot it.