Schedules + time zones — what to write
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Use natural-language schedules like "every weekday at 9am". Avery uses your local time zone by default.
The wizard's trigger extractor accepts both natural-language and cron syntax. Natural-language wins for readability:
"every morning at 8am" → 0 8 * * * "every weekday at 9:30am" → 30 9 * * 1-5 "hourly" → 0 * * * * "every Monday at noon" → 0 12 * * 1 "on the 1st of each month" → 0 0 1 * *
Avery interprets times in your local time zone — the agent's ledger records both wall-clock + UTC for clarity. Daylight-saving transitions are handled by the underlying cron library (croner).
For webhook + email-arrival triggers, no time is needed — the agent reacts whenever the upstream event lands. Mention the FILTER though: "when a Slack message tagged #urgent arrives" gets a filter the wizard records on the trigger.
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