Cron Translator

Cron for every 12 hours

Twice a day, at midnight and noon.

0 */12 * * *

At minute 0 past every 12th hour

Interpreted in UTC · approximately 2 runs per day

Things to check

  • Note

    Interpreted in UTC

    A cron expression has no timezone of its own — the scheduler's zone decides when it fires. These times are computed in UTC. The same expression on a host in another zone runs at a different moment.

    Fix: Set the schedule timezone explicitly (TZ= or CRON_TZ= in crontab, `timeZone` in Kubernetes, or the scheduler's own setting). Vercel Cron Jobs always run in UTC.

Fields

Minute0
At minute 0.
Hour*/12
Every 12 hours.
Day of month*
Every day of the month.
Month*
Every month.
Day of week*
Every day of the week.

Next runs

  1. Thu, 2026-09-03, 00:00
  2. Thu, 2026-09-03, 12:00
  3. Fri, 2026-09-04, 00:00
  4. Fri, 2026-09-04, 12:00
  5. Sat, 2026-09-05, 00:00
  6. Sat, 2026-09-05, 12:00
  7. Sun, 2026-09-06, 00:00
  8. Sun, 2026-09-06, 12:00

Try a different expression or timezone

Times above are in UTC. Pick a timezone here to see this schedule in local time.

Call this from code or an agent

curl 'https://crontoenglish.com/api/v1/explain?expression=0%20*%2F12%20*%20*%20*'

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