Cron expression: on the last day of the month

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What 0 0 28-31 * * means

Cron reads five fields from left to right: minute, hour, day of the month, month and day of the week. For on the last day of the month they are:

Next runs

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Typical uses

• Month-end closing
• Final monthly reports

Good to know

Standard cron has no “last day” value. Run on days 28–31 and let the command exit unless tomorrow is the 1st: [ "$(date -d tomorrow +\%d)" = 01 ] && /job.sh. Quartz and some schedulers support L directly.

Use it in crontab, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes and Node.js

crontab (crontab -e):

0 0 28-31 * * /usr/local/bin/my-job.sh >> /var/log/my-job.log 2>&1

GitHub Actions (times are UTC):

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 28-31 * *'

Kubernetes CronJob:

apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: my-job
spec:
  schedule: "0 0 28-31 * *"
  concurrencyPolicy: Forbid
  jobTemplate:
    spec:
      template:
        spec:
          restartPolicy: OnFailure
          containers:
            - name: my-job
              image: alpine:3
              command: ["sh", "-c", "echo running"]

Node.js (node-cron):

import cron from 'node-cron';
cron.schedule('0 0 28-31 * *', () => {
  // your job
});

Related schedules

• Every month — 0 0 1 * *
• On the 15th of every month — 0 0 15 * *
• On the 1st and 15th — 0 0 1,15 * *
• Every quarter — 0 0 1 1,4,7,10 *
• Every 6 months — 0 0 1 1,7 *
• Every year — 0 0 1 1 *
• On the first Monday of the month — 0 9 1-7 * *