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Expand Up @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ The following table lists the required cron fields and supported values:
<tr>
<td>Day-of-month</td>
<td>1 through 31</td>
<td>, - * ? L W </td>
<td>, - * ? </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Month</td>
Expand All @@ -43,12 +43,14 @@ The following table lists the required cron fields and supported values:
<tr>
<td>Day-of-week</td>
<td>1 through 7 or SUN through SAT</td>
<td>, - * ? L</td>
<td>, - * ?</td>
</tr>
</table>

## Special Characters

Replicated uses an external cron Go library. For more information about it's usage, see [cron](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/robfig/cron/v3).

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^ added link to the library

The following table describes the supported special characters:

<table>
Expand All @@ -72,14 +74,6 @@ The following table describes the supported special characters:
<td>Question mark (?)</td>
<td> Specifies that one or another value can be used. For example, enter <code>5</code> for Day-of-the-month and <code>?</code> for Day-of-the-week to check for updates on the 5th day of the month, regardless of which day of the week it is.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>L</td>
<td>Specifies the last day of the month or week respectively for the Day-of-month or Day-of-week fields.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>W</td>
<td>Specifies the "N-th" occurrence or given day in the month. For example, the second Friday of the month is specified as <code>6#2</code>.</td>
</tr>
</table>

## Predefined Schedules
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -151,21 +145,8 @@ The following examples show valid cron expressions to schedule checking for upda
30 11 * * *
```

- At 6:00 PM on the fourth Monday of every month:

```
0 18 ? * 2#4
```

- At midnight on the last day of every month:

```
0 0 L * ?
```

- After 1 hour and 45 minutes, and then every interval following that:

```
@every 1h45m
```

```