If you're looking for a regex expression which can validate the format of a CRON time expression (for most versions of CRON) you've probably had a look at StackOverflow and had to trapse through a bunch of possible expressions which may not quite work.
Credit to Juarez and Slava who collectively derived the expression below here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14203122/create-a-regular-expression-for-cron-statement/63729682#63729682