Cron: Every weekday (Mon–Fri)

Runs the job at midnight on weekdays only.

0 0 * * 1-5

At 00:00 Monday through Friday.

Field breakdown

MinuteHourDay of monthMonthDay of week
00**1-5

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

Business-day-only jobs like invoicing, syncing work data, or generating workday reports.

Watch out for

Day-of-week uses 0–6 with Sunday = 0; 1-5 is Mon–Fri. Cron has no notion of public holidays, so those aren’t skipped.

Other common cron expressions

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