12 // scheduleCronGap is the shortest time between two runs of a cron
13 // expression. Each run is a full turn, so shorter gaps use the quota
17 // scheduleCronYears is how many years the search for the next time
22 // scheduleCronFields are the fields of a cron expression, in order, with their
23 // lowest and highest values.
24 var scheduleCronFields = []struct {
56 // scheduleParseCron parses a cron expression of five fields: minute, hour, day
57 // of month, month, and day of week, where 0 and 7 are Sunday. A field is a
58 // comma list of items, and an item is *, N, or N-M, where * and N-M can have a
59 // step /S. Names, macros, the characters ? L W #, and N/S are errors.
61 // It refuses an expression whose runs can be less than scheduleCronGap minutes
62 // apart. The check takes the wall times of one day from the hour and the minute
63 // fields, and the gap across midnight as if the next day matches too. It also
64 // refuses an expression that matches no day in scheduleCronYears years, such as
65 // one on February 30.
66 func scheduleParseCron(expression string) (ScheduleCron, error) {
67 fields := strings.Fields(expression)
68 if len(fields) != len(scheduleCronFields) {
69 return ScheduleCron{}, fmt.Errorf("the cron expression %q has %d fields, not 5: minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week", expression, len(fields))
73 for index, field := range fields {
74 set, err := scheduleCronField(field, scheduleCronFields[index].low, scheduleCronFields[index].high)
76 return ScheduleCron{}, fmt.Errorf("the %s field of %q: %w", scheduleCronFields[index].name, expression, err)
88 anyDay: strings.HasPrefix(fields[2], "*"),
89 anyWeekday: strings.HasPrefix(fields[4], "*"),
90 description: strings.Join(fields, " "),
93 if c.weekdays&(1<<7) != 0 {
97 if c.gap() < scheduleCronGap {
98 return ScheduleCron{}, fmt.Errorf("the runs of %q can be less than %d minutes apart: the runs of a schedule must be at least %d minutes apart", expression, scheduleCronGap, scheduleCronGap)
101 start := time.Date(2024, time.January, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
102 _, found := c.Next(start)
104 return ScheduleCron{}, fmt.Errorf("the cron expression %q matches no day in %d years", expression, scheduleCronYears)
110 // ScheduleCron is a parsed cron expression. Each set holds a bit for each value
111 // of its field. anyDay and anyWeekday tell that the day field or the weekday
112 // field starts with *. When neither does, a day matches when either field
113 // matches, as in classic cron. Otherwise both fields must match.
114 type ScheduleCron struct {
125 // String returns the expression with one space between its fields.
126 func (c ScheduleCron) String() string {
130 // Next returns the first time after after whose wall time in the location of
131 // after matches, or false when no time in scheduleCronYears years matches. A
132 // wall time goes through scheduleWallTime, so a wall time that the clock skips
133 // runs later by the length of the skip, and a wall time that the clock repeats
134 // runs once, at its first occurrence.
135 func (c ScheduleCron) Next(after time.Time) (time.Time, bool) {
136 location := after.Location()
137 year, month, day := after.Date()
138 first := time.Date(year, month, day, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
139 last := first.AddDate(scheduleCronYears, 0, 0)
140 for date := first; date.Before(last); date = date.AddDate(0, 0, 1) {
145 // A wall time that the clock skips moves later, so the times of
146 // one day are not always in order. The first time is the
149 for hour := range 24 {
150 if c.hours&(1<<hour) == 0 {
154 for minute := range 60 {
155 if c.minutes&(1<<minute) == 0 {
159 t := scheduleWallTime(date.Year(), date.Month(), date.Day(), hour, minute, location)
160 if t.After(after) && (next.IsZero() || t.Before(next)) {
171 return time.Time{}, false
174 // day tells if the calendar date matches the month and the day fields.
175 func (c ScheduleCron) day(date time.Time) bool {
176 if c.months&(1<<int(date.Month())) == 0 {
180 day := c.days&(1<<date.Day()) != 0
181 weekday := c.weekdays&(1<<int(date.Weekday())) != 0
182 if c.anyDay || c.anyWeekday {
183 return day && weekday
186 return day || weekday
189 // gap returns the shortest time in minutes between two wall times of the hour
190 // and the minute fields, also across midnight.
191 func (c ScheduleCron) gap() int {
193 for hour := range 24 {
194 for minute := range 60 {
195 if c.hours&(1<<hour) != 0 && c.minutes&(1<<minute) != 0 {
196 times = append(times, 60*hour+minute)
201 gap := times[0] + 24*60 - times[len(times)-1]
202 for index := 1; index < len(times); index++ {
203 gap = min(gap, times[index]-times[index-1])
209 // scheduleWallTime returns the time of a wall time in location. A wall time
210 // that the clock skips, at the start of daylight saving time, is later by the
211 // length of the skip: 02:30 becomes 03:30 when the clock goes from 02:00 to
212 // 03:00. A wall time that the clock repeats, at the end of daylight saving
213 // time, is its first occurrence, as in cron.
214 func scheduleWallTime(year int, month time.Month, day, hour, minute int, location *time.Location) time.Time {
215 t := time.Date(year, month, day, hour, minute, 0, 0, location)
216 _, before := t.Add(-3 * time.Hour).Zone()
217 _, offset := t.Zone()
218 if t.Hour() != hour || t.Minute() != minute || t.Day() != day {
219 wall := time.Date(year, month, day, hour, minute, 0, 0, time.UTC)
221 return wall.Add(-time.Duration(before) * time.Second).In(location)
225 earlier := t.Add(-time.Duration(before-offset) * time.Second)
226 if earlier.Day() == day && earlier.Hour() == hour && earlier.Minute() == minute {
234 // scheduleCronField returns the set of the values of one field, from low to
236 func scheduleCronField(field string, low, high int) (uint64, error) {
238 for item := range strings.SplitSeq(field, ",") {
239 base, stepText, stepped := strings.Cut(item, "/")
243 step, err = scheduleCronNumber(stepText, 1, high)
245 return 0, fmt.Errorf("the step of %q: %w", item, err)
249 first, last := low, high
250 startText, endText, ranged := strings.Cut(base, "-")
255 first, err = scheduleCronNumber(startText, low, high)
257 last, err = scheduleCronNumber(endText, low, high)
260 if err == nil && first > last {
261 err = errors.New("the start is after the end")
265 return 0, fmt.Errorf("the range %q: %w", base, err)
268 return 0, fmt.Errorf("%q has a step after a single value: write a range N-M/S or */S", item)
271 first, err = scheduleCronNumber(base, low, high)
279 for value := first; value <= last; value += step {
287 // scheduleCronNumber returns the value of text, a decimal number from low to
289 func scheduleCronNumber(text string, low, high int) (int, error) {
290 if text == "" || strings.Trim(text, "0123456789") != "" {
291 return 0, fmt.Errorf("%q is not a number from %d to %d", text, low, high)
294 value, err := strconv.Atoi(text)
295 if err != nil || value < low || value > high {
296 return 0, fmt.Errorf("%q is not a number from %d to %d", text, low, high)