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11.3. Date Specifications

Date specifications are used to create cron-like expressions relating to time. Each field can contain a single number or a single range. Instead of defaulting to zero, any field not supplied is ignored.
For example, monthdays="1" matches the first day of every month and hours="09-17" matches the hours between 9 am and 5 pm (inclusive). However, you cannot specify weekdays="1,2" or weekdays="1-2,5-6" since they contain multiple ranges.

Table 11.5. Properties of a Date Specification

FieldDescription
id
A unique name for the date
hours
Allowed values: 0-23
monthdays
Allowed values: 0-31 (depending on month and year)
weekdays
Allowed values: 1-7 (1=Monday, 7=Sunday)
yeardays
Allowed values: 1-366 (depending on the year)
months
Allowed values: 1-12
weeks
Allowed values: 1-53 (depending on weekyear)
years
Year according the Gregorian calendar
weekyears
May differ from Gregorian years; for example, 2005-001 Ordinal is also 2005-01-01 Gregorian is also 2004-W53-6 Weekly
moon
Allowed values: 0-7 (0 is new, 4 is full moon).