Cron: Yearly (Jan 1) (0 0 1 1 *)
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What does 0 0 1 1 * mean?
The cron expression 0 0 1 1 * translates to “At 00:00, on the 1st, in January”. It is one of the most commonly used schedules (yearly (jan 1)).
Two fields are pinned here: day-of-month `1` and month `1` (January), with minute 0 and hour 0. Together they fire the job exactly once a year, at 00:00 on January 1st. This is as infrequent as common cron schedules get - suited to annual tasks like yearly archival, resetting a fiscal-year counter, rotating a long-lived credential, or a "happy new year" send. Because a whole year passes between runs, it is worth pairing this schedule with monitoring or a dead-man's-switch: a job that only fires annually is the easiest one to silently break without anyone noticing until next January.
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Example runs from Jan 1, 2026 (UTC)
- Fri Jan 01 2027, 00:00 UTC
- Sat Jan 01 2028, 00:00 UTC
- Mon Jan 01 2029, 00:00 UTC
- Tue Jan 01 2030, 00:00 UTC
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Set both day-of-month and month fields to 1: "0 0 1 1 *". This executes on January 1st at midnight.
Set the day to 31 and month to 12: "0 0 31 12 *".