Biannual CRON job

[Matt Lane]

I want to automate a task to be created twice a year. Once on 1st May and once on 1st November, at 12:45am UTC.

I have used the following CRON expression and I think this is correct, but would really appreciate confirmation?

0 45 0 1 5,11 ? *

Thank you.

[said kouzibry · Accepted solution]

Your expression is correct,

This is how I would do it : 0 45 0 1 5/6 ? *

0 : midnight

45 : minutes

0 : seconds

1 : first day of month

5/6 : fifth month of each 6 month cycle (May, November)

? : Day of week (ignored)

* : every year

[Matt Lane]

Interesting take. Thanks kouzibry

[Kishan Sharma · Accepted solution]

Hi @Matt Lane The CRON expression is correct, it will run on 1st May and 1st November every year.

[Matt Lane]

Thanks Kishan

[Martin Bayer _MoroSystems_ s_r_o__]

Hi @Matt Lane there are online tools and you can use them to validate your query

• http://www.cronmaker.com/;jsessionid=node01703rx655bnysepely95bt0oe2030256.node0?0

[Matt Lane]

Thanks Martin

[Selcuk Tayar]

Hello guys, 

can you help me define a cron expression for 01.01 and 01.06 of every year ?

Thank you in advance.