Novell PLATESPIN ORCHESTRATE 2.0.2 - DEVELOPMENT CLIENT REFERENCE 08-28-2009 Reference page 40

Results of Altered Cron Syntax on Execution Times
Table 3-4
Cron Expression Example
0 0 12 * * ?
0 15 10 ? * *
0 15 10 * * ?
0 15 10 * * ? *
0 15 10 * * ? 2008
0 * 14 * * ?
0 0/5 14 * * ?
0 0/5 14,18 * * ?
0 0-5 14 * * ?
0 10,44 14 ? 3 WED
0 15 10 ? * MON-FRI
0 15 10 15 * ?
0 15 10 15 * ?
0 15 10 ? * 6L
0 15 10 ? * 6L 2008-2011
0 15 10 ? * 6#3
0 0 12 1/5 * ?
0 11 11 11 11 ?
Cron Scheduling Precautions
You should remember the following items when you use cron scheduling:
Always check the effect of adding the
fields to make sure the expected behavior fires correctly.
Support for specifying both a day-of-week and a day-of-month value is not complete (you must
currently use the
Be careful when setting fire times to occur between 12:00 a.m. and 1:00 a.m.— changing to or
out of Daylight Saving Time can cause a skip or a repeat in the schedule firing, depending on
whether the clock moves backward or forward.
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Description
Fire at 12:00 p.m. (noon) every day
Fire at 10:15 a.m. every day
Fire at 10:15 a.m. every day
Fire at 10:15 a.m. every day
Fire at 10:15 a.m. every day during the year 2008
Fire every minute starting at 2:00 p.m. and ending at 2:59.p.m., every
day
Fire every five minutes starting at 2:00 p.m. and ending at 2:55 p.m.,
every day
Fire every five minutes starting at 2:00 p.m. and ending at 2:55 p.m.,
fire every five minutes starting at 6:00 p.m. and ending at 6:55
and
p.m., every day
Fire every minute starting at 2:00 p.m. and ending at 2:05.p.m., every
day
Fire at 2:10 p.m. and at 2:44 p.m. every Wednesday in the month of
March
Fire at 10:15 a.m. every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday
Fire at 10:15 a.m. on the 15th day of every month
Fire at 10:15 a.m. on the last day of every month
Fire at 10:15 a.m. on the last Friday of every month
Fire at 10:15 a.m. on every last Friday of every month during the years
2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011
Fire at 10:15 a.m. on the third Friday of every month
Fire at 12:00 p.m. (noon) every five days every month, starting on the
first day of the month
Fire every November 11th at 11:11 a.m.
and
?
character in one of these fields).
?
characters in the day-of-week and day-of-month
*