Monthly Pattern

First Monday of Every Month Cron Expression

Execute a job on the first Monday of each month at 9 AM

CRON EXPRESSION

0 9 1-7 * 1
Frequency:Once per month (first Monday)

Understanding the Expression

0

Minute

9

Hour

1-7

Day

*

Month

1

Weekday

Format: minute hour day month weekday

Special characters: * (any value), */n (every n), n-m (range), , (list)

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Use with ClawTick

Schedule this pattern with ClawTick's CLI or dashboard:

clawtick job create \
  --cron "0 9 1-7 * 1" \
  --message "Your task message here" \
  --name "First Monday of Every Month Job"
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Common Use Cases

Monthly team meetings

Month start planning sessions

Monthly kickoff reminders

First-Monday reports

Production Tips

Timezone Considerations

Cron expressions run in UTC by default. ClawTick lets you specify IANA timezones per job (e.g., America/New_York, Europe/London).

Monitoring & Alerts

Always monitor scheduled jobs for failures. ClawTick provides built-in execution history and failure alerts so you know immediately when something breaks.

Idempotency

Design jobs to be idempotent (safe to run multiple times). This prevents issues if a trigger fires twice due to network retries or scheduler edge cases.

Related Cron Expressions

Monthly on First Day

0 0 1 * *

Execute a job on the 1st of every month at midnight

Weekly on Monday at 9 AM

0 9 * * 1

Execute a job every Monday morning at 9:00 AM

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