Cron on the 1st and 15th of the month

Runs at midnight on the 1st and the 15th, a common schedule for payroll, invoices and twice-monthly reports.

At 00:00 on the 1st and 15th of the month.

Next runs

What each field means

FieldValueMeaning
Minute00
Hour00
Day of month1,151 and 15
Month*every month
Day of week*any day of the week

Know when it doesn’t run

Cron never tells you when a job fails to start or dies halfway. Add a ping at the end of the line: if Heartcron doesn’t hear it on schedule, you get an alert in Telegram, Slack, Discord or email.

0 0 1,15 * * /path/to/job.sh && curl -fsS -m 10 --retry 3 https://ping.heartcron.com/<check-id> > /dev/null

Monitor this job for free How pings work

Common schedules