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Cron for every Friday at 8am

0 8 * * 5

At 08:00 AM, only on Friday

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What this schedule does

Pin a job to Friday at 8am with 0 8 * * 5. Weekly deploys, payroll exports, and newsletter sends almost always name a weekday rather than “every 7 days,” because wall-clock day-of-week survives DST better than a raw interval.

Next 5 runs (UTC)

Times below are computed for UTC. Open the builder to preview another timezone.

  1. Fri, 21 Aug 2026, 08:00 UTC
  2. Fri, 28 Aug 2026, 08:00 UTC
  3. Fri, 04 Sept 2026, 08:00 UTC
  4. Fri, 11 Sept 2026, 08:00 UTC
  5. Fri, 18 Sept 2026, 08:00 UTC

Copy-paste snippets

GitHub Actions

UTC only. Quote the expression so YAML keeps the stars.

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 8 * * 5'

Kubernetes

CronJob spec.schedule. Kubernetes uses the timezone of the kube-controller-manager unless you set .spec.timeZone.

apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: job
spec:
  schedule: "0 8 * * 5"
  jobTemplate:
    spec:
      template:
        spec:
          restartPolicy: OnFailure
          containers:
            - name: job
              image: busybox
              args: ["echo", "run"]

AWS EventBridge

Six fields: minutes hours day-of-month month day-of-week year. Use ? in either day-of-month or day-of-week.

cron(0 8 ? * 5 *)

Quartz

Quartz is seconds-first (6 or 7 fields). Day-of-week names are MON, TUE, … and ? is required in one of the day fields.

0 0 8 * * 5

Vercel Cron

{
  "crons": [
    {
      "path": "/api/cron",
      "schedule": "0 8 * * 5"
    }
  ]
}

crontab

0 8 * * 5 /usr/local/bin/job

node-cron

import cron from 'node-cron';

cron.schedule('0 8 * * 5', () => {
  // job
});

Spring @Scheduled

Spring uses 6 fields by default (seconds first) unless you set spring.task.scheduling.cron.expression.

@Scheduled(cron = "0 0 8 * * 5")
public void run() {
    // job
}

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