Cron for the first of the month at 6pm
0 18 1 * *At 06:00 PM, on day 1 of the month
What this schedule does
Day-of-month 1 and hour 18 give 0 18 1 * * — once a month on the 1st at 6pm. Invoices, quota resets, and monthly digests belong here. Standard cron has no “last day of month”; Quartz L is the usual upgrade if you need the 28th–31st.
Next 5 runs (UTC)
Times below are computed for UTC. Open the builder to preview another timezone.
- Tue, 01 Sept 2026, 18:00 UTC
- Thu, 01 Oct 2026, 18:00 UTC
- Sun, 01 Nov 2026, 18:00 UTC
- Tue, 01 Dec 2026, 18:00 UTC
- Fri, 01 Jan 2027, 18:00 UTC
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GitHub Actions
UTC only. Quote the expression so YAML keeps the stars.
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schedule:
- cron: '0 18 1 * *'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 18 1 * *"
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 18 1 * ? *)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 18 1 * *Vercel Cron
{
"crons": [
{
"path": "/api/cron",
"schedule": "0 18 1 * *"
}
]
}crontab
0 18 1 * * /usr/local/bin/jobnode-cron
import cron from 'node-cron';
cron.schedule('0 18 1 * *', () => {
// job
});Spring @Scheduled
Spring uses 6 fields by default (seconds first) unless you set spring.task.scheduling.cron.expression.
@Scheduled(cron = "0 0 18 1 * *")
public void run() {
// job
}