Cron Expressions

Schedules and Auto Server Restarting in Pode use cron expressions to define when they trigger. This page is a brief overview of the expressions supported by Pode.

Basic

Pode supports all basic features of cron expressions in the following format:

<min> <hour> <day-of-month> <month> <day-of-week>

For example, if you wanted to run a schedule that triggers every midnight on a Tuesday, the following would work:

0 0 * * TUE

Whereas if you wanted a schedule to trigger on the 15th of each month, at 1am:

0 1 15 * *

Predefined

The following table outlines some of the predefined cron expressions supported by Pode; you can use these in place of normal cron expressions:

Predefined	Expression
@minutely	* * * * *
@hourly	0 * * * *
@daily	0 0 * * *
@weekly	0 0 * * 0
@monthly	0 0 1 * *
@quarterly	0 0 1 1,4,8,7,10 *
@yearly	0 0 1 1 *
@annually	0 0 1 1 *
@twice-hourly	0,30 * * * *
@twice-daily	0,12 0 * * *
@twice-weekly	0 0 * * 0,4
@twice-monthly	0 0 1,15 * *
@twice-yearly	0 0 1 1,6 *
@twice-annually	0 0 1 1,6 *

Advanced

Pode does have some support for advanced cron features, including its own placeholder: R.

• R: using this on an atom will use a random value between that atom's constraints, and when the expression is triggered the atom is re-randomised - you can force an initial trigger value using /R. For example: 30/R * * * * will trigger on 30mins, then a random minute afterwards; whereas using R * * * * will always trigger on a random minute between 0-59.