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Cron backset

The cron reader turns an expression into words; this page walks the other way. Plain language — "every night at 2:30", "on tuesday and thursday at 9:00" — is converted through a named list of sentence forms, and every result is checked by the same engine that reads expressions.

Nothing is guessed. A phrase that is not on the list gets the refusal and the full list of forms that do work; a build the engine rejects is thrown out. The next run moments that appear under the expression are the same computation as on the cron page, in the time zone of this device.

Handy after planning backups, reports and cleanups: you think up the frequency, this page hands you the line for your crontab.

Turn plain words back into a cron expression: "every day at 6:05", "on weekdays at 9:00" — deterministic, limited to the forms the tool knows, checked by the cron reader.