Cron on New Year’s Day

Expression: 0 0 1 1 *

Meaning

Run at midnight on January 1.

Example use

Good for annual reset jobs, yearly summaries and new-year maintenance.

How to modify it

Change the month field from 1 to another month for a different annual date.

Use it in the cron parser

Open the Cron Parser, paste 0 0 1 1 *, and review the next run times in your browser before using the schedule in production.

Related cron schedules

• Cron every year — 0 0 1 1 *
• Cron yearly — 0 0 1 1 *
• Cron every quarter — 0 0 1 1,4,7,10 *

FAQ

Does cron use my local time zone?

Cron uses the time zone configured in the scheduler or server. Cloud platforms, CI systems and containers may default to UTC.

Is this a five-field or six-field cron?

This page uses standard five-field crontab syntax: minute, hour, day of month, month and day of week.