# Cron Parser

Canonical: https://herebetools.com/cron

Parse cron expressions to plain English

Paste a cron expression to get a plain-English explanation and a list of upcoming scheduled run times. Supports standard five-field Unix cron (minute, hour, day-of-month, month, day-of-week), six-field expressions with seconds, and shorthand like @daily, @weekly, and @hourly. Useful for debugging CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes CronJobs, AWS EventBridge rules, GitHub Actions scheduled workflows, and cloud function triggers.

## Questions and answers

### Does this support Quartz cron syntax?

The parser supports standard 5-field Unix cron and 6-field cron with seconds. Some Quartz-specific extensions such as the year field may not be supported.

### How many upcoming run times does it show?

The tool shows the next several scheduled run times so you can verify your expression fires at the expected intervals.

## Related tools

- [Timestamp](https://herebetools.com/timestamp): Convert Unix timestamps to human-readable dates with timezone support
- [Regex Tester](https://herebetools.com/regex): Test and debug regular expressions

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