The cron expression to run a job every Friday at 6 PM is 0 18 * * 5. Preview run times in your timezone.
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About 0 18 * * 5
0 18 * * 5 runs once a week, on Friday at 6 PM. A common shape for weekly reports and digest emails.
Cron reads the five fields as minute hour day month weekday. For this schedule that breaks down as:
| Field | Position | Matches |
|---|---|---|
0 | minute | 0 |
18 | hour | 18 |
* | day of month | every day |
* | month | every month |
5 | day of week | Friday |
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Use it in crontab or GitHub Actions
The snippets below use UTC. The crontab timezone setting requires a compatible daemon such as Cronie. GitHub Actions defaults to UTC and accepts a timezone on each schedule. For other timezones, Kubernetes, EventBridge Scheduler, or Vercel, use the export menu in the calculator above.
crontab
# At 06:00 PM, only on Friday # CRON_TZ requires a cron implementation that supports it, such as Cronie. CRON_TZ=UTC 0 18 * * 5 /path/to/command
GitHub Actions workflow
# At 06:00 PM, only on Friday
on:
schedule:
- cron: '0 18 * * 5'
timezone: "UTC"