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Schedule cron fields

BTU Task Schedule uses five-field cron:

minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week

Examples

Expression Meaning (local time in schedule TZ)
*/5 * * * * Every 5 minutes
0 9 * * 1-5 Weekdays at 09:00
0 0 1 * * First day of month at midnight

Time zone

Set Time Zone on the schedule. Cron is evaluated in that zone, not UTC.

Validation

BTU uses cron parsing utilities in btu/utils/cron.py for Desk validation and display.