CRON to run every 30 minutes during business hours

Melissa Kibrick

I want to check a filter and send an alert every 30 minutes but only during business hours. The issue is we are running on Pacific Time so my CRON expression looks like this:

0 0/30 0-1,14-23 ? * MON-FRI

This works well Tuesday to Thursday, but it also send alerts on Sunday afternoon and stops alerts 2 hours early on Friday.

I really don't want to create 2 automations just to get 2 CRON statements.

Darryl Lee

Unfortunately, I think the situation is still as @Jack Brickey wrote in Nov 2020:

Automation runs at UTC. I wish you could choose your Zone but not there today. 

I wonder if maybe you could use the {{now}} Smart Value and combine it with the convertToTimeZone function to write your own Advanced compare condition. I'll think on this a bit.