Cron: at midnight on the first of every month

The crontab expression that runs at midnight on the first of every month, with the next occurrences in your timezone.

0 0 1 * *

minutehourday (month)monthday (week)

“at 00:00 on day 1 of the month”

Also what @monthly expands to. There is no plain-cron way to say LAST day of the month — schedule the 1st and run yesterday's work, or fire daily and let the job check the date.

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Other common schedules

every minute* * * * *
every 5 minutes*/5 * * * *
every 10 minutes*/10 * * * *
every 15 minutes*/15 * * * *
every 30 minutes*/30 * * * *
every hour, on the hour0 * * * *
every 2 hours0 */2 * * *
every 3 hours0 */3 * * *