# Quick bit of help with cronplus

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**Created:** [8 October 2025 20:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/quick-bit-of-help-with-cronplus/99322 "2025-10-08T20:34:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trying\_to\_learn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/trying_to_learn/32/28400_2.png) [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)\
**Post date:** [8 October 2025 20:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/quick-bit-of-help-with-cronplus/99322/1 "2025-10-08T20:34:30Z")

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And it is a great node!

I am wanting to make a schedule for (example) the LAST day of the month.

I know of the `L` option for Last.... But not exactly how to apply it here.

There is an example for the Last Monday of the month.  
But not the last DAY of the month.

I also may need one for the SECOND LAST day. But for now Last - I hope - suffices.

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**Author:** ![Steve-Mcl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/steve-mcl/32/4826_2.png) [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)\
**Post date:** [8 October 2025 20:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/quick-bit-of-help-with-cronplus/99322/2 "2025-10-08T20:43:55Z")

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Not at computer so cannot test but what does `0 12 L * *` show you in the tooltip?

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**Author:** ![Trying\_to\_learn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/trying_to_learn/32/28400_2.png) [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)\
**Post date:** [8 October 2025 20:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/quick-bit-of-help-with-cronplus/99322/3 "2025-10-08T20:45:40Z")

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Thanks.

The `help` showed me `0 12 * * MONL` for 12 oclock last monday of month.

So I'll give your way a try.

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**Author:** ![Trying\_to\_learn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/trying_to_learn/32/28400_2.png) [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)\
**Post date:** [8 October 2025 20:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/quick-bit-of-help-with-cronplus/99322/4 "2025-10-08T20:49:01Z")

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Steve, you're a champion!

Ok, I have an "older" version but the help is a bit confusing.  
(Not expecting you to fix it. Just explaining why/how I got stuck.)

 ![Screenshot from 2025-10-09 07-47-14](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/6/8/68abf573713b4ae5952aa6ec60344923c29ee3f5.png)

Or did I get confused with the day of the week option being included?

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**Author:** ![jbudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)\
**Post date:** [8 October 2025 21:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/quick-bit-of-help-with-cronplus/99322/5 "2025-10-08T21:48:17Z")

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> [@Trying\_to\_learn](#):
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> I also may need one for the SECOND LAST day. But for now Last - I hope - suffices.

There is no syntax such as L-1 for the second last day of the month.

You should be able to use a dynamic schedule to achieve this but it's almost certainly simpler to define a schedule that fires on the 27th to 30th of each month and using a function node downstream to test if today is actually the penultimate day.

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**Author:** ![Trying\_to\_learn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/trying_to_learn/32/28400_2.png) [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)\
**Post date:** [9 October 2025 05:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/quick-bit-of-help-with-cronplus/99322/6 "2025-10-09T05:56:39Z")

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Thanks.

I just wanted to check.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [23 October 2025 05:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/quick-bit-of-help-with-cronplus/99322/7 "2025-10-23T05:57:27Z")

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