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Field

Mandatory Values

Special characters

Month

yes

1 - 12 or JAN - DEC , - * /

Day of Week yes

1 - 7 or SUN - SAT

, - * / ? L #

Year

no

1970 - 2099

, - * /

Table 5: Fields of a Quartz cron expression

Example

A simple example would be:

0 0 19 24 DEC ? 2010

This cron expression would trigger a backup job at 7.00 p.m. on
24.12.2010.

The following table shows the use of special characters in a cron expression:

Special
characters

Description

Example

Meaning of
the example

x,y

Describes a list of 2 or
more values

* * 9 ? * SAT,SUN

At 9 a.m.
every Sat-
urday and Sun-
day

x-y

A range of values from x to
y inclusive.

* * 6 ? * MON-FRI

At 6 a.m.
every Monday
to Friday

*

Describes all possible valu-
es

* * * ? * *

Every second

x/y

Describes a sequence
starting with x and incre-
mented by y

* 0/5 * 1 * ?

Every 5 sec-
onds starting
at 0:00 on the
first day of
each month

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