Cron tool / First of every month

Cron expression for "first of every month"

The cron expression is 0 0 1 * * At 12:00 AM, on day 1 of the month.

This schedule means

At 12:00 AM, on day 1 of the month

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Using it

In a crontab, you'd write 0 0 1 * * /path/to/your/command. Most schedulers (Linux cron, Vercel Cron, GitHub Actions, Laravel, node-cron) accept this 5-field format.

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