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Cron Explainer

FreeVietnam time & UTC

What does “0 9 * * 1-5” mean, and when does it run next? Paste a cron expression to read it in plain English and see the next runs.

01 · Cron expression

Cron expression

5 fields: minute hour day month weekday. Accepts *, numbers, ranges (1-5), lists (1,15), steps (*/10), month/day names (JAN, MON) and @daily, @hourly…

Common schedules:

02 · Time zone

GitHub Actions, Kubernetes and most cloud servers run cron in UTC: 9 am in Vietnam is 2 am UTC.

It means

At 09:00, Monday through Friday.

Field by field

	Value	Meaning
Minute	`0`	0
Hour	`9`	9
Day	`*`	every day
Month	`*`	every month
Weekday	`1-5`	Monday–Friday

Next runs · Vietnam (UTC+7)

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