Cron expressions are explained everywhere; what bites in production is the time zone. Paste a 5-field cron expression and pick a zone to see which upcoming runs fall on a wall-clock time that daylight saving time deletes (spring forward) or repeats (fall back).
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Limits. This tool lists when a wall-clock time exists in the zone; it does not emulate any particular scheduler. Vixie cron, systemd timers, Kubernetes CronJob, and cloud schedulers handle DST differently, so check your scheduler's documentation for what it does with a skipped or repeated time. Only standard 5-field syntax is supported (*, lists, ranges, steps, month/day names; no L, W, #, @ aliases or seconds). When day-of-month and day-of-week are both restricted, a day matches if either does (Vixie behavior); some schedulers use AND. Zone data comes from your browser's own time zone database. Everything runs locally; nothing is sent anywhere.