Schedule issue

[jmaffie]

Describe the bug

WATCHTOWER_SCHEDULE 0 0 20 1-7 * FRI is interpreted as 20:00 every friday and every 1-7th of the month. I believe this expression should be interpreted as 20:00 the first friday of the month.

Steps to reproduce

set the env variable WATCHTOWER_SCHEDULE to "0 0 20 1-7 * FRI"

Expected behavior

run at 20:00 the first friday of the month

Screenshots

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Environment

up to date docker and container as of this date. running on Ubuntu LTS 20.04

Your logs

INFO[0001] Watchtower 1.7.1                             

INFO[0001] Using no notifications                       

INFO[0001] Checking all containers (except explicitly disabled with label) 

INFO[0001] Scheduling first run: 2024-10-11 20:00:00 -0400 EDT 

INFO[0001] Note that the first check will be performed in 142 hours, 47 minutes, 18 seconds

Additional context

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[reynaldichernando]

I can confirm that the above cron expression 0 0 20 1-7 * FRI runs every Friday, not only on the first Friday of the month. Looking at the crontab, the next schedules will happen on every other Fridays.

However, I think this is more about the cron expression rather than a bug in watchtower. This cron expression 0 0 20 */100,1-7 * FRI will achieve the first Friday of the month schedule (crontab).

Reference for why the second cron expression works: https://blog.healthchecks.io/2022/09/schedule-cron-job-the-funky-way/

[reynaldichernando]

Testing it out on watchtower

docker run \        
    --name watchtower \
    --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
    containrrr/watchtower \
    --schedule "0 0 20 */100,1-7 * FRI"

Output

time="2024-10-14T17:19:36Z" level=info msg="Watchtower 1.7.1"
time="2024-10-14T17:19:36Z" level=info msg="Using no notifications"
time="2024-10-14T17:19:36Z" level=info msg="Checking all containers (except explicitly disabled with label)"
time="2024-10-14T17:19:36Z" level=info msg="Scheduling first run: 2024-11-01 20:00:00 +0000 UTC"
time="2024-10-14T17:19:36Z" level=info msg="Note that the first check will be performed in 434 hours, 40 minutes, 23 seconds"

[Hello-World-Traveler]

level=info msg="Scheduling first run: 2025-07-01 00:03:00 "
Note that the first check will be performed in 4787 hours, 35 minutes, 21 seconds"

I had it set for Friday morning before changing it and an hour ago it just started updating, It should have updated around 12 hours ago.

Scheduling first run: 2025-07-01 00:00:00"
Note that the first check will be performed in 4787 hours, 21 minutes, 11 seconds

0 3 1/7 * * would work for me, however 3am becomes 3pm. Something to do with 24 hour time?