Cron expression: every weekday at 9 am

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What 0 9 * * 1-5 means

Cron reads five fields from left to right: minute, hour, day of the month, month and day of the week. For every weekday at 9 am 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

• Business-day reports
• Reminders for the team
• Opening support queues

Good to know

Monday to Friday. Days of the week are numbered 0–6 starting on Sunday (7 is also Sunday in most cron implementations).

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

crontab (crontab -e):

0 9 * * 1-5 /usr/local/bin/my-job.sh >> /var/log/my-job.log 2>&1

GitHub Actions (times are UTC):

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 9 * * 1-5'

Kubernetes CronJob:

apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: my-job
spec:
  schedule: "0 9 * * 1-5"
  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 9 * * 1-5', () => {
  // your job
});

Related schedules

• Every weekend — 0 10 * * 6,0
• Every Monday — 0 0 * * 1
• Every Friday at 5 pm — 0 17 * * 5
• Every Sunday — 0 0 * * 0
• Every week — 0 0 * * 0
• Every hour during business hours — 0 9-17 * * 1-5
• Every 15 minutes during business hours — */15 9-17 * * 1-5