Cron expression for every weekday at 6pm

About 0 18 * * 1-5

0 18 * * 1-5 — Runs at the end of each working day, Monday through Friday.

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, Monday through Friday
0 18 * * 1-5 /path/to/command

GitHub Actions workflow

# At 06:00 PM, Monday through Friday
# Note: GitHub Actions always runs schedules in UTC.
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 18 * * 1-5'

Weekday & weekend schedules

• every weekday0 0 * * 1-5
• every weekday at 9am0 9 * * 1-5
• every weekend0 0 * * 0,6
• every 15 minutes during business hours*/15 9-17 * * 1-5

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