Cron expression for every Thursday at 6 PM

About 0 18 * * 4

0 18 * * 4 runs once a week, on Thursday 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:

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Use it in crontab or GitHub Actions

Both snippets are ready to paste. A crontab runs in the server's local timezone; GitHub Actions always evaluates schedules in UTC. For Kubernetes, AWS EventBridge, or Vercel, use the export menu in the calculator above.

crontab

# At 06:00 PM, only on Thursday
0 18 * * 4 /path/to/command

GitHub Actions workflow

# At 06:00 PM, only on Thursday
# Note: GitHub Actions always runs schedules in UTC.
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 18 * * 4'

Weekly schedules

• every Monday0 0 * * 1
• every Monday at 9 AM0 9 * * 1
• every Monday at 6 PM0 18 * * 1
• every Tuesday0 0 * * 2
• every Tuesday at 9 AM0 9 * * 2
• every Tuesday at 6 PM0 18 * * 2

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