How to create a cron job for every April 1st?

[Elif Alverson]

Hello, 

I am trying to create a cron job to schedule a task for every year on April first and I try to use " 0 0 6 1 Apr * " , but it does not work?

What am I missing? 

Thank you.

Elif

[JohnsonHoward · Accepted solution]

Try this:

0 0 12 1 4 ? *

[Elif Alverson]

It works. So this will create an Jira issue every year 1st of April at 12am, correct?

[JohnsonHoward]

Correct, that CRON expression translates to the 1st of April every year at 12am. 

[Elif Alverson]

Thank you very much.

[Glen Cochrane]

@Elif Alverson 
The solution above would actually be 12 PM, not 12 AM.

This would be yearly on April 1 at 12 AM:
0 0 0 1 4 ? *

Also, keep in mind Atlassian CRON run on UTC :)