diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e403a912..c4f37115 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,5 @@ build/
 dist/
 *.egg-info/
 .tox/
+.env/
+.idea/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 03b67a06..c526b410 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 click==4.0
 redis==2.10.5
 structlog==15.1.0
+croniter==0.3.17
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index bed79906..d6e40a5a 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,7 +3,10 @@
 install_requires = [
     'click',
     'redis',
-    'structlog'
+    'structlog',
+    'croniter',
+    'pytz',
+    'tzlocal',
 ]
 
 tests_require = install_requires + [
diff --git a/tasktiger/schedule.py b/tasktiger/schedule.py
index 4ef44fdf..39f46af1 100644
--- a/tasktiger/schedule.py
+++ b/tasktiger/schedule.py
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 import datetime
+import pytz
+import tzlocal
+import croniter
 
-__all__ = ['periodic']
+__all__ = ['periodic', 'cron_expr']
 
 def _periodic(dt, period, start_date, end_date):
     if end_date and dt >= end_date:
@@ -39,3 +42,16 @@ def periodic(seconds=0, minutes=0, hours=0, days=0, weeks=0, start_date=None,
         # Saturday at midnight
         start_date = datetime.datetime(2000, 1, 1)
     return (_periodic, (period, start_date, end_date))
+
+def _cron_expr(naive_utc_dt, expr):
+    aware_utc_dt = pytz.utc.localize(naive_utc_dt)
+    local_timezone = tzlocal.get_localzone()
+    local_dt = aware_utc_dt.astimezone(local_timezone)
+    local_dt = local_timezone.normalize(local_dt)
+    next_dt = croniter.croniter(expr, start_time=local_dt).get_next(ret_type=datetime.datetime)
+    next_utc = next_dt.astimezone(pytz.utc)
+    next_utc = pytz.utc.normalize(next_utc)
+    return next_utc
+
+def cron_expr(expr_format):
+    return _cron_expr, (expr_format, )