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.
0minute0hour*day*month4weekdayIn 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— minute0— hour*— day of month (every value)*— month (every value)4— day of week