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fix(cron): honour a step of 1 in bare stepped items (n/1 means n..max) - #1206
parseItem in internal/cron/schedule.go documents that a bare n/s means n..max step s, but it only extended the range to the field maximum when the step was greater than 1. A bare step of 1 therefore collapsed to the single start value, in every field.
Reproduction on current main (e034a938):
Parse("5/1 * * * *") sets the minute field to bitset 100000, minute 5 only, instead of minutes 5..59.
Next for 5/1 * * * * after 2026-06-09 10:05:30 UTC returns 11:05:00 instead of 10:06:00.
So a job scheduled as 5/1 * * * * fires once an hour at :05 instead of every minute from :05 onward, silently, through zero cron add and zero cron list. 0 9/1 * * * has the same defect in the hour field (09:00 only instead of 09:00 to 23:00).
The fix
parseItem now tracks whether a step was present at all (hasStep) and extends a bare value to the field maximum based on the step's presence, not its size, so n/1 means n..max step 1 while a bare n with no step still means just n. Regression cases land in internal/cron/schedule_test.go (bare 5/1 and 0 9/1 field sets, plus a 5/2 control) and internal/cron/next_test.go (the 10:05:30 to 10:06 case and the 10:59:30 wrap to 11:05). Scope is internal/cron/ only: 3 files, +15/-2.
Verification (rebased onto current main e034a938, Go 1.26.10)
The new tests fail on unfixed current main for exactly the claimed reason: TestParseValidFields reports the minute bitset 100000 for 5/1 * * * *, and TestNext reports 11:05:00 where 10:06:00 is wanted.
With the fix, go test ./internal/cron/ passes, including under -race.
go build ./... and go vet ./... pass; gofmt is clean on the touched files; git diff HEAD --check is clean; make fmt-check passes.
Full go test ./... on the fixed tree: 82 packages ok, 7 packages fail (internal/daemon, internal/installtest, internal/npmwrapper, internal/privatedir, internal/sessions, internal/specialist, internal/tools) with 9 failing tests. A pristine current main run the same way produced identical package results and an identical failing test set: these are environment failures on this machine (root, network, and installer artefacts), unaffected by this change.
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Corrected cron schedules that specify a starting value and step without an explicit range. They now continue through the field’s maximum, including when the step is 1.
Prevented schedules from firing twice for the same wall-clock minute during the fall-back daylight saving transition when advancing from a minute-aligned time.
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Added coverage for stepped schedules with omitted range limits and for cron behavior during the fall-back daylight saving transition.
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Cron parsing now extends a bare numeric value through the field maximum when an explicit step is present, including a step of 1. Schedule calculation also skips repeated fall-back wall-clock minutes for minute-aligned inputs.
parseItem distinguishes an explicit step from the default. A bare value with a step extends through the field maximum, including for step 1. Tests cover parsed fields and next-time results.
Schedule.Next skips the second occurrence of an ambiguous wall-clock minute when after is minute-aligned. The New York fall-back test checks for duplicate wall-clock minutes and asserts 190 fires.
Existing jobs can run more frequently after upgrade, and jobs started near fall-back can miss scheduled runs. Resolve these scheduling risks before merging unless explicitly accepted.
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If a future change limits n/1 expansion to zero-based fields, these tests can pass while 0 0 1/1 * * runs only monthly. Add cases for day-of-month and month.
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Review comment at @internal/cron/schedule_test.go around lines 30 - 32:
Add stepped one-based field cases to the cron schedule tests, covering
day-of-month and month expressions using `1/1`. Verify that `0 0 1/1 * *`
selects every day and that `0 0 * 1/1 *` selects every month, while preserving
the expected day-of-week and validity assertions.
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Review comments at @internal/cron/schedule.go:
- Line 132: In the schedule parsing flow around hasStep, migrate affected saved
expressions such as existing 0/1 * * * * jobs to preserve their prior hourly
cadence before reparsing them. Apply this compatibility migration only to saved
jobs; newly created jobs must retain the new interpretation.
- Around line 132-133: Update the stepped-range handling in `Next` so schedules
do not emit wall-clock times that have already occurred when daylight-saving
fall-back repeats an hour; preserve normal step scheduling outside the repeated
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Review comments at @internal/cron/schedule_test.go:
- Around line 30-32: Add stepped one-based field cases to the cron schedule
tests, covering day-of-month and month expressions using `1/1`. Verify that `0 0
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Preserve the schedule of existing jobs.
An existing 0/1 * * * * job can run every minute after an upgrade instead of hourly. This can multiply its side effects and resource use. Migrate affected saved expressions before reparsing them, while retaining the new interpretation for newly created jobs.
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Review comment at @internal/cron/schedule.go at line 132:
In the schedule parsing flow around hasStep, migrate affected saved expressions
such as existing 0/1 * * * * jobs to preserve their prior hourly cadence before
reparsing them. Apply this compatibility migration only to saved jobs; newly
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Thanks for flagging this. I traced the storage and firing paths at this PR's head and could not find a migration point that can work, so I have not changed code for this item. The evidence:
Stored jobs carry no record of how they were parsed. internal/cron/store.go persists each job as an Expr string plus a computed NextRunAt timestamp in per-job metadata.json. There is no format or version marker, and the store never calls Parse.
Firing never re-derives slots from a stored parse. claimFire in internal/cli/cron_run.go claims a job when the persisted NextRunAt is due and computes the following slot as sched.Next(fired) from that persisted timestamp; reconcileOverdue does the same. So after an upgrade, an existing 0/1 * * * * job fires at its stored NextRunAt and then follows the corrected semantics from that point on. There is no stale bitset or saved cadence to migrate.
The suggested hook cannot distinguish the two cases. Migrating inside the parse flow around hasStep sees saved expressions and newly typed expressions as the same string, so it would have to rewrite both or neither.
The only real migration would be rewriting users' stored Expr strings at load time (for example 0/1 to 0), which changes expressions users saved and is a product decision. It also cuts the other way: 0/1 under the old parser contradicted the documented grammar in docs/cron.md (a bare n/step means n-max/step), which is the bug this PR fixes, so a job saved as 0/1 was arguably already misparsed rather than expressing a cadence its author chose.
Happy to implement a load-time rewrite instead if the maintainers prefer preserving the old firing pattern for existing jobs; leaving that call to them rather than bundling it into this fix.
@cairn-intern Thanks for tracing this. I agree that the parser alone cannot distinguish saved expressions from new ones. A compatibility migration is a maintainer product decision.
One correction: claimFire calculates the next slot from the current fire time, not the stored NextRunAt. reconcileOverdue can also reschedule an overdue job before it fires. The compatibility impact remains: an existing 0/1 * * * * job can change from hourly to every minute.
I could not verify the documented grammar because docs/cron.md is absent from the checkout. Could you share the correct path or retry that check?
Would you like me to open a follow-up issue for the maintainer decision and upgrade impact?
…ck chain
Add the day-of-month and month bare-step cases (1/1 selects the full
range) to TestParseValidFields, and a regression test that chains
Next(fired) for 5/1 * * * * across the 2026-11-01 America/New_York
fall-back the way claimFire does, asserting no wall-clock minute
fires twice. The chain test fails on the current code.
…er DST fall-back
The fall-back guard in Next only collapsed a repeated minute when
the candidate shared the exact wall minute of after, so a stepped
schedule such as 5/1 * * * * re-fired the repeated hour's stepped
minutes once the runner chained Next(fired) past them. Generalize
the guard: skip any candidate that is the second occurrence of its
wall-clock minute whenever after is at or past that minute's first
occurrence. A mid-minute after inside the first pass still returns
the repeated minute, as before.
Addressed the CodeRabbit review (the changes-requested review on this PR). Two new commits on top of 53e8ebd; the original fix commit is unchanged.
1. DST fall-back repeat for stepped schedules (inline thread on internal/cron/schedule.go): valid, fixed.
The old guard only collapsed a repeated minute when the candidate shared the exact wall minute of after, so a stepped schedule such as 5/1 * * * * re-fired the repeated hour's stepped minutes when the runner chained Next(fired). Fixed in a5cd3a8 by skipping any candidate that is the second occurrence of its wall-clock minute once after is at or past the first occurrence. Regression test in af12909; details and the pre-fix failure output are in the thread reply.
2. Migration of saved expressions (inline thread on internal/cron/schedule.go): no code change, replied with evidence.
Stored jobs persist an Expr string plus a NextRunAt timestamp with no version marker (internal/cron/store.go), firing chains from the persisted timestamp (internal/cli/cron_run.go), and the parse flow cannot tell a saved expression from a newly typed one. A load-time rewrite of stored expressions is a product decision for the maintainers; the full reasoning is in the thread reply.
3. Nitpick test rows (review body): added.
The suggested day-of-month and month bare-step cases (0 0 1/1 * * and 0 0 * 1/1 *) are in TestParseValidFields, in af12909.
Verification (Go 1.26.10, the toolchain go.mod pins): go vet ./... clean, go build ./... clean, go test -race -count=1 ./internal/cron/ passes, including the new chain test and both pre-existing fall-back tests. A full local go test ./... run shows failures only in unrelated packages (internal/daemon/remote, internal/privatedir, internal/sandbox, internal/sessions, internal/specialist, internal/tools) from this VM's environment (umask 0007 and sandbox temp paths); the mode-assertion packages pass under a standard umask 022, and none of them touch cron.
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- Around line 212-214: Update the repeated-hour handling around
fallBackFirstOccurrence so it distinguishes duplicate occurrences using prior
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rg -n -F -e '.Next(' -e 'NextRunAt' -e 'LoadLocation' -- internal/cron internal/cli/cron*.go
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Go time.Date ambiguous daylight savings transition returns one of two zone choice documentation Go time
Result:
Sources consulted:
- time package - time - Go Packages — https://pkg.go.dev/time
- - The Go Programming Language — https://go.dev/src/time/time.go
- time package - github.com/go-lang/go/src/pkg/time - Go Packages — https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-lang/go/src/pkg/time
- time package - time - Go Packages — https://pkg.go.dev/time%40go1.27.3
- time package - github.com/x04/go/src/time - Go Packages — https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/x04/go/src/time
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rg -n -F -e 'cronRun(' -e 'cronAdd(' -e 'time.Now' -- internal/cli/cron.go internal/cli/cron_run.go
d=$(mktemp -d)trap'rm -rf "$d"' EXIT
cat >"$d/main.go"<<'EOF'package mainimport ("fmt"; "time")func main() { loc, err := time.LoadLocation("America/New_York"); if err != nil { fmt.Println(err); return } after := time.Date(2026,11,1,6,5,0,0,time.UTC).In(loc) for _, m := range []int{0,10,20,30,40,50} { t := time.Date(2026,11,1,6,m,0,0,time.UTC).In(loc) first := time.Date(t.Year(),t.Month(),t.Day(),t.Hour(),t.Minute(),0,0,loc) fmt.Printf("after=%s candidate=%s redated=%s repeated=%t notBefore=%t\n",after,t,first,first.Before(t),!after.Before(first)) }}EOF
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Track prior fires separately from the search time.
If a */10 1 * * * job starts at 01:59:30 EDT, it can fire at 01:00 EST. The next search then skips every remaining matching minute and schedules the next day. A minute-aligned after does not prove those minutes fired. Use fire history to distinguish duplicates from unfired occurrences.
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Update the repeated-hour handling around fallBackFirstOccurrence so it
distinguishes duplicate occurrences using prior fire history rather than
treating a minute-aligned after value as proof that the occurrence already
fired. Preserve scheduling for matching minutes in the repeated hour that have
not yet fired, while preventing already-fired occurrences from being scheduled
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Thanks for the clear write-up. The bug is real: on main, parseItem sets hi = v when the step is 1, so a bare 5/1 collapses to minute 5 only.
I can't review the diff yet, though. Zero accepts community PRs only for an existing issue that the team has marked issue-approved (see CONTRIBUTING.md), and this PR has no parent issue. The PR has also grown past the n/1 fix: the two later commits change how stepped schedules fire during the DST fall-back hour, which is a separate behavior change and would need its own issue.
If you open an issue for the n/1 bug, I'll triage it. Whether this PR stays open is kevin's call.
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The bug
parseItemininternal/cron/schedule.godocuments that a baren/smeans n..max step s, but it only extended the range to the field maximum when the step was greater than 1. A bare step of 1 therefore collapsed to the single start value, in every field.Reproduction on current main (
e034a938):Parse("5/1 * * * *")sets the minute field to bitset100000, minute 5 only, instead of minutes 5..59.Nextfor5/1 * * * *after 2026-06-09 10:05:30 UTC returns 11:05:00 instead of 10:06:00.So a job scheduled as
5/1 * * * *fires once an hour at :05 instead of every minute from :05 onward, silently, throughzero cron addandzero cron list.0 9/1 * * *has the same defect in the hour field (09:00 only instead of 09:00 to 23:00).The fix
parseItemnow tracks whether a step was present at all (hasStep) and extends a bare value to the field maximum based on the step's presence, not its size, son/1means n..max step 1 while a barenwith no step still means just n. Regression cases land ininternal/cron/schedule_test.go(bare5/1and0 9/1field sets, plus a5/2control) andinternal/cron/next_test.go(the 10:05:30 to 10:06 case and the 10:59:30 wrap to 11:05). Scope isinternal/cron/only: 3 files, +15/-2.Verification (rebased onto current main
e034a938, Go 1.26.10)TestParseValidFieldsreports the minute bitset100000for5/1 * * * *, andTestNextreports 11:05:00 where 10:06:00 is wanted.go test ./internal/cron/passes, including under-race.go build ./...andgo vet ./...pass;gofmtis clean on the touched files;git diff HEAD --checkis clean;make fmt-checkpasses.go test ./...on the fixed tree: 82 packages ok, 7 packages fail (internal/daemon,internal/installtest,internal/npmwrapper,internal/privatedir,internal/sessions,internal/specialist,internal/tools) with 9 failing tests. A pristine current main run the same way produced identical package results and an identical failing test set: these are environment failures on this machine (root, network, and installer artefacts), unaffected by this change.Note
Cairn has no cron expression parser (its scheduling is interval based), so this defect has no Cairn analogue; the fix is zero only.
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