Cron for every weekday at 6am
0 6 * * 1-5At 06:00 AM, Monday through Friday
What this schedule does
Monday–Friday at 6am is 0 6 * * 1-5. This is the default for stand-up reminders, business-hours syncs, and “don’t page me on Saturday” reports. Day-of-week 1-5 is Monday through Friday in standard cron (0 and 7 are Sunday).
Next 5 runs (UTC)
Times below are computed for UTC. Open the builder to preview another timezone.
- Fri, 21 Aug 2026, 06:00 UTC
- Mon, 24 Aug 2026, 06:00 UTC
- Tue, 25 Aug 2026, 06:00 UTC
- Wed, 26 Aug 2026, 06:00 UTC
- Thu, 27 Aug 2026, 06:00 UTC
Copy-paste snippets
GitHub Actions
UTC only. Quote the expression so YAML keeps the stars.
on:
schedule:
- cron: '0 6 * * 1-5'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 6 * * 1-5"
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 6 ? * 1-5 *)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 6 * * 1-5Vercel Cron
{
"crons": [
{
"path": "/api/cron",
"schedule": "0 6 * * 1-5"
}
]
}crontab
0 6 * * 1-5 /usr/local/bin/jobnode-cron
import cron from 'node-cron';
cron.schedule('0 6 * * 1-5', () => {
// job
});Spring @Scheduled
Spring uses 6 fields by default (seconds first) unless you set spring.task.scheduling.cron.expression.
@Scheduled(cron = "0 0 6 * * 1-5")
public void run() {
// job
}