Cron expression: every day at midnight

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What 0 0 * * * means

Cron reads five fields from left to right: minute, hour, day of the month, month and day of the week. For every day at midnight they are:

Next runs

Calculated in your browser for your time zone. On a server, cron uses the server’s time zone (often UTC).

1. Enable JavaScript to see the next run times.

Typical uses

• Nightly backups
• Daily reports
• Resetting daily quotas

Good to know

Midnight in the server’s time zone (often UTC). @daily and @midnight mean the same.

Use it in crontab, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes and Node.js

crontab (crontab -e):

0 0 * * * /usr/local/bin/my-job.sh >> /var/log/my-job.log 2>&1

GitHub Actions (times are UTC):

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 * * *'

Kubernetes CronJob:

apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: my-job
spec:
  schedule: "0 0 * * *"
  concurrencyPolicy: Forbid
  jobTemplate:
    spec:
      template:
        spec:
          restartPolicy: OnFailure
          containers:
            - name: my-job
              image: alpine:3
              command: ["sh", "-c", "echo running"]

Node.js (node-cron):

import cron from 'node-cron';
cron.schedule('0 0 * * *', () => {
  // your job
});

Related schedules

• Every day at 1 am — 0 1 * * *
• Every day at 2 am — 0 2 * * *
• Every day at 6 am — 0 6 * * *
• Every day at 9 am — 0 9 * * *
• Every day at noon — 0 12 * * *
• Every day at 6 pm — 0 18 * * *
• Twice a day — 0 0,12 * * *