Failing to get a human-readable schedule

[jamesbraza]

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I am trying to get Renovate to run on the first Monday of the month between 2 and 3 am. I have tried the following schedule in JSON5:

• schedule: ["at 2am on the first monday of the month"]
• schedule: ["after 2am and before 3am on the first monday of the month"]
• schedule: ["on the first monday of the month after 2am and before 3am"]

However, none of them will pass renovate-config-validator invoked via https://github.com/suzuki-shunsuke/github-action-renovate-config-validator.

Logs (if relevant)

renovate-config-validator --strict .github/renovate.json5

INFO: Validating .github/renovate.json5
ERROR: Found errors in configuration
"file": ".github/renovate.json5",
"errors": [
{
"topic": "Configuration Error",
"message": "Invalid schedule: Invalid schedule: Failed to parse \"on the first monday of the month after 2am and before 3am\""
}
]

[RahulGautamSingh]

We have deprecated the use of later syntax for scheduling, please use cron syntax

* 2 * * 1#1 (for your case)

[jamesbraza]

Did you mean to put the 1#1, or was that a typo?

And I am thinking "on the first monday of the month after 2am and before 3am" would be schedule: ["* 2 1-7 * 1"]:

• *: every minute
• 2: during 2nd hour
• 1-7: during first week of the month
• *: every month
• 1: during 1st day of the week (Monday)

[RahulGautamSingh]

https://www.site24x7.com/tools/crontab/cron-generator.html
You can confirm the description for the cron from here

[jamesbraza]

Thank you, and yes it was right:

To circle back on this:

* 2 * * 1#1 (for your case)

I'm gonna assume the 1#1 was a typo then.

Thanks again for your help here!