Cron Expression for Every Sunday at Midnight

Cron reads this as: at 00:00, on day-of-week Sunday.

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Computed in your browser's local time zone. Cron itself evaluates against the server's zone, which on most cloud hosts is UTC — see time zones & DST if that distinction matters here.

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When to use this schedule

The conventional weekly slot, and the expression behind the @weekly shorthand. Used for weekly full backups, log archival, and rolling up a completed week's data.

What to watch out for

Sunday can be written as 0 or 7 in standard cron, but only 0 is accepted everywhere — Quartz, for instance, numbers Sunday as 1 and reads 7 as Saturday. Use 0, or better SUN, if the expression might travel. Midnight on Sunday is the start of Sunday, so a "weekly" job here is summarising Monday through Saturday plus nothing of Sunday itself.

The crontab line

0 0 * * 0 /usr/local/bin/your-job.sh >> /var/log/your-job.log 2>&1

Redirect the output somewhere you will actually read it — by default cron mails it, and on a host with no mail transport that means it is discarded. See the crontab guide for the surrounding syntax.

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