diff --git a/components/time.rst b/components/time.rst index 6e418db43..2b4dee208 100644 --- a/components/time.rst +++ b/components/time.rst @@ -57,7 +57,9 @@ This powerful automation can be used to run automations at specific intervals at specific times of day. The syntax is a subset of the `crontab `__ syntax. There are two ways to specify time intervals: Either with using the ``seconds:``, ``minutes:``, ... -keys as seen below or using a cron expression like ``* /5 * * * *``. +keys as seen below or using a cron alike expression like ``* /5 * * * *``. + +Be aware normal cron implementations does not know about seconds like this esphome implementation, therefore you got 6 fields (seconds,minutes,hours,dayofmonth,month,dayofweek). Basically, the automation engine looks at your configured time schedule every second and evaluates if the automation should run.