Cron during business hours only

Fires hourly from 09:00 to 17:00 Monday through Friday — 9 fires per business day, 0 on weekends. Used for jobs that should only run while staff is online to handle errors.

intermediate POSIX / Jenkins / Quartz / AWS

0 9-17 * * 1-5

cron during business hours only.

Next 5 fire times

Computed live in your local timezone. The cron expression itself is timezone-agnostic — these times reflect your browser clock.

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Cross-system syntax variants

Same intent, different schedulers. Use this table when migrating between systems.

System	Expression	Note
Standard cron (POSIX)	0 9-17 * * 1-5	hour range, DOW range
Cron (named DOW)	0 9-17 * * MON-FRI	named days for clarity
Jenkins	H 9-17 * * MON-FRI	minute hash
Quartz (Java)	0 0 9-17 ? * MON-FRI	6-field with DOW
AWS EventBridge	cron(0 9-17 ? * MON-FRI *)	Quartz-flavor

Common pitfalls

9-17 fires 9 times: 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. Inclusive on both ends. 9-16 = 8 fires.
Holiday handling: this expression DOES fire on holidays falling on a weekday. Add code-level skip.
Time zone of cron host = business hours definition. If host is UTC and team is EST, '9-17 UTC' = 04:00-12:00 EST — wrong. Set host TZ or convert.

Use cases

Real-time dashboard refresh during work hours
Customer-facing communication (digests sent only when team can respond)
Live monitoring with on-call dispatch
Hourly business metrics during open hours

Translate any cron expression

cronwtf takes any cron string and returns plain-English description plus the next 5 fire times in your timezone. Standard 5-field, Jenkins H, Quartz 6-field — all supported.

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