Novell PLATESPIN ORCHESTRATE 2.0.2 - DEVELOPMENT CLIENT REFERENCE 08-28-2009 Reference page 39

Operator Purpose
L ("last") The character is allowed for the day-
L
of-month and day-of-week fields.
Specifies either the last day of the
month, or the last xxx day of the month.
W ("weekday") The W character is allowed for the day-
of-month field.
Specifies the weekday (Monday-Friday)
nearest the given day.
pound sign ( # ) The pound sign (
allowed for the day-of-week field. This
character is used to specify "the nth" xxx
day of the month.
NOTE: The legal characters and the names of months and days of the week are not case sensitive.
is the same as .
MON mon
You can specify days in two fields: month day and weekday. If both are specified in an entry, they
are cumulative, meaning that both of the entries are executed.
Examples of Cron Syntax
The following table shows examples of full cron expressions and their respective meanings.
Example
The value
"the last day of the month"––day 31 for
January, day 28 for February in non-leap
years. If you use
by itself, it simply means
use it in the day-of-week field after another
value, it means "the last xxx day of the
month." For example,
Friday of the month."
TIP: When you use the
not to specify lists or ranges of values. Doing
so causes confusing results.
If you specify
of-month field, the meaning is "the nearest
weekday to the 15th of the month." So if the
15th is a Saturday, the trigger fires on Friday
the 14th. If the 15th is a Sunday, the trigger
fires on Monday the 16th. If the 15th is a
Tuesday, it fires on Tuesday the 15th.
However, if you specify
day-of-month, and the 1st is a Saturday, the
trigger fires on Monday the 3rd, because it
does not "jump" over the boundary of a
month's days. The
specified when the day-of-month is a single
day, not a range or list of days.
TIP: You can combine the
characters for the day-of-month expression
to yield
weekday of the month."
# ) character is The value of
means the third Friday of the month (day
Friday and
Other Examples:
Monday of the month and
fifth Wednesday of the month. However, if
you specify
the given day-of-week in the month, no firing
occurs that month.
in the day-of-month field means
L
in the day-of-week field
L
or . But if you
7 SAT
means "the last
6L
option, be careful
L
15W as the value for the day-
as the value for
1W
character can only be
W
L and W
LW , which translates to "last
6#3 in the day-of-week field
#3 = the 3rd one in the month).
2#1 specifies the first
4#5 specifies the
and there are fewer than 5 of
#5
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