Cron expression for every Thursday

The cron expression to run a job every Thursday at midnight is 0 0 * * 4. See the next executions and copy it for crontab, Kubernetes, or GitHub Actions.

0minute
0hour
*day
*month
4weekday

In Plain English

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At 12:00 AM, only on Thursday

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About 0 0 * * 4

0 0 * * 4 runs weekly at midnight on Thursday. The last field is the day of week, where 0 is Sunday and 6 is Saturday — Thursday is 4.

Cron reads the five fields as minute hour day month weekday. For this schedule that breaks down as:

  • 0 minute
  • 0 hour
  • * day of month (every value)
  • * month (every value)
  • 4 day of week

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