Fujitsu V3.1 manual Field Mandatory Values Special characters

				14.1 VIOM Backup Service
Field	Mandatory	Values		Special characters
Month	yes	1	- 12 or JAN - DEC , - * /
Day of Week	yes	1	- 7 or SUN - SAT	, - * / ? L #
Year	no	1970 - 2099		, - * /

Table 5: Fields of a Quartz cron expression

Example

A simple example would be:

0 0 19 24 DEC ? 2010

This cron expression would trigger a backup job at 7.00 p.m. on 24.12.2010.

The following table shows the use of special characters in a cron expression:

Special	Description	Example	Meaning of
characters			the example
x,y	Describes a list of 2 or	* * 9 ? * SAT,SUN	At 9 a.m.
	more values		every Sat-
			urday and Sun-
			day
x-y	A range of values from x to	* * 6 ? * MON-FRI	At 6 a.m.
	y inclusive.		every Monday
			to Friday
*	Describes all possible valu- * * * ? * *		Every second
	es
x/y	Describes a sequence	* 0/5 * 1 * ?	Every 5 sec-
	starting with x and incre-		onds starting
	mented by y		at 0:00 on the
			first day of
			each month

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