Schedule Formats

Domain: Automation & Scheduling

Motivation

Cron jobs can use several schedule formats: duration, every phrase, 5-field cron, or ISO timestamp.

Concrete Example

You can write every 2 hours, or 0 */2 * * *, or 2026-08-04T10:00:00. All are valid schedule formats.

Analogy

Like writing dates in different formats: 4/8/2026 or August 4 2026 or 2026-08-04 all mean the same day.