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1. The Standard 5-Field Syntax Breakdown

A standard Unix cron string consists of 5 whitespace-separated fields:

┌───────────── Minute (0 - 59)
│ ┌─────────── Hour (0 - 23)
│ │ ┌───────── Day of Month (1 - 31)
│ │ │ ┌─────── Month (1 - 12)
│ │ │ │ ┌───── Day of Week (0 - 6, where 0 is Sunday)
* * * * *

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