Cron every day at 3pm

The cron expression for every day at 3pm is 0 15 * * *. In words: at 15:00.

Cron expression

Timezone

What each field means

Field	Value	Meaning
Minute	0	minute 0
Hour	15	3pm
Day of month	*	any day of the month
Month	*	every month
Day of week	*	any day of the week

Times are in the timezone of whatever runs the schedule: the server's local time for crontab, UTC for GitHub Actions.

Use it

In a crontab, with a FlatLyne ping after the job succeeds:

0 15 * * * /usr/local/bin/job.sh && curl -fsS -m 10 --retry 5 https://api.flatlyne.com/<ping-token>

In a Kubernetes CronJob:

apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: CronJob
spec:
  schedule: "0 15 * * *"
  timeZone: "Etc/UTC"

In a GitHub Actions workflow (always UTC):

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 15 * * *"

Know when it doesn't run

Cron doesn't tell you when a job fails or never starts. Create a FlatLyne check with the schedule 0 15 * * *, add the curl above to your job, and get an email, Slack message or PagerDuty incident when a ping is late. See how to monitor a cron job.

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