Cron: Every Sunday

Runs the job at midnight every Sunday.

0 0 * * 0

At 00:00 every Sunday.

Field breakdown

MinuteHourDay of monthMonthDay of week
00**0

The five fields are, in order: minute (0–59), hour (0–23), day of month (1–31), month (1–12), and day of week (0–6, Sunday = 0).

Common use case

Weekly maintenance windows, full backups, or weekly summary emails.

Watch out for

Sunday is 0 (and 7 in many implementations) — if a run seems off by a day, check how your scheduler numbers weekdays.

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