Weekly
0 9 * * 1-5Run Monday to Friday at 09:00.
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0 9 * * 1-5 means0 9 * * 1-5 is the quintessential "working-day start" schedule: 9am, Monday through Friday. It combines a specific hour with the 1-5 weekday range to deliver the morning kickoff only on days people are actually working.
This is the single most useful weekday pattern for human-facing automation — standups, daily-but-only-on-workdays reports, and morning reminders all live here. It is the weekday cousin of the everyday 0 9 * * *.
Unix cron has five fields. Here is what each one is doing in this expression:
| Field | Value | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Minute | 0 | minute = 0 |
| Hour | 9 | hour = 9 |
| Day of month | * | every day-of-month |
| Month | * | every month |
| Day of week | 1-5 | the range 1-5 (inclusive) of day-of-week |
The same cadence written for the seven cron dialects you are most likely to meet. Copy the line for the system you target — the field count and day-of-week numbering differ between them.
| Scheduler | Expression | Copy |
|---|---|---|
| Unix / crontab | 0 9 * * 1-5 | |
| GitHub Actions | 0 9 * * 1-5 | |
| Kubernetes CronJob | 0 9 * * 1-5 | |
| Vercel Cron | 0 9 * * 1-5 | |
| Quartz | 0 0 9 ? * 1-5 * | |
| Spring | 0 0 9 ? * 1-5 | |
| AWS EventBridge | 0 9 ? * 1-5 * |
0 9 * * 1-5Still fires on bank holidays that fall on weekdays. Wrap human-facing sends in a holiday check, and remember the hour is the server's — convert per-user if the audience spans zones.
0 9 * * 1-5 means: Run Monday to Friday at 09:00. 0 9 * * 1-5 is the quintessential "working-day start" schedule: 9am, Monday through Friday. It combines a specific hour with the 1-5 weekday range to deliver the morning kickoff only on days people are actually working.
Use 0 9 * * 1-5 in the schedule's cron field. Still fires on bank holidays that fall on weekdays. Wrap human-facing sends in a holiday check, and remember the hour is the server's — convert per-user if the audience spans zones.
EventBridge uses six fields with a required year and a ? placeholder in one day field: 0 9 ? * 1-5 *. Wrap it as cron(0 9 ? * 1-5 *) in the console or CloudFormation.
Quartz is seconds-first with a trailing year, so the equivalent is 0 0 9 ? * 1-5 *. Remember Quartz numbers Sunday as 1, the opposite of Unix.
Browse the full set of cron pattern pages, or jump to the interactive tools: the cron expression builder for designing a schedule from scratch, the cron cheat sheet for a side-by-side reference, the cron timezone translator for moving a schedule between zones and dialects, and the GitHub Actions cron picker for DST-stable CI schedules.