0 9 * * 1-5
Cron reads this as: at 09:00, on day-of-week Monday through Friday.
Next 5 runs
These times are in your browser's local time zone. Cron itself uses the server's zone, which on most cloud hosts is UTC. If the difference matters here, see time zones & DST.
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When to use this schedule
This runs Monday through Friday at 09:00. It is the usual schedule for a morning digest, a standup reminder or a report that should be ready when the team logs on. Day of week runs 0-6 with Sunday as 0, so 1-5 is Monday to Friday.
What to watch out for
MON-FRI is equivalent and more portable across schedulers, because Quartz and AWS number the days differently but agree on the names. If a person is waiting for this output, the server's time zone also matters. Cloud hosts default to UTC, so 09:00 there may be the middle of the night for your team. Set CRON_TZ above the line, and leave the day-of-month field as *.
The crontab line
0 9 * * 1-5 /usr/local/bin/your-job.sh >> /var/log/your-job.log 2>&1Send the output to a log you will read. By default cron mails it, and on a host with no mail transport that mail is silently dropped. See the crontab guide for the surrounding syntax.
Related schedules
| Expression | Schedule |
|---|---|
0 9 * * MON-FRI | Same schedule, using names |
0 17 * * 1-5 | End of the workday instead |
0 9-17 * * 1-5 | Hourly through the workday |
Build your own
If this page doesn't cover the schedule you need, compose it field by field in the visual builder, or paste an expression you already have into the explainer for a per-field breakdown. The examples library has sixty schedules in one place, and the guides cover crontab syntax, time zones, troubleshooting and production practices.