Cron every weekend day
The cron expression for every weekend day is 0 0 * * 0,6. In words: at 00:00, only on Sunday and Saturday.
What each field means
| Field | Value | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Minute | 0 | minute 0 |
| Hour | 0 | midnight |
| Day of month | * | any day of the month |
| Month | * | every month |
| Day of week | 0,6 | Sunday and Saturday |
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 0 * * 0,6 /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 0 * * 0,6" timeZone: "Etc/UTC"
In a GitHub Actions workflow (always UTC):
on:
schedule:
- cron: "0 0 * * 0,6"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 0 * * 0,6, 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.
Related schedules
- Cron every day 0 0 * * *
- Cron every day at 1am 0 1 * * *
- Cron every day at 2am 0 2 * * *
- Cron every day at 3am 0 3 * * *
- Cron every day at 4am 0 4 * * *
- Cron every day at 5am 0 5 * * *
- Cron every day at 6am 0 6 * * *
- Cron every day at 7am 0 7 * * *
- Cron every day at 8am 0 8 * * *
- Cron every day at 9am 0 9 * * *
- Cron every day at 10am 0 10 * * *
- Cron every day at 11am 0 11 * * *
- Cron every day at noon 0 12 * * *
- Cron every day at 1pm 0 13 * * *
- Cron every day at 2pm 0 14 * * *
- Cron every day at 3pm 0 15 * * *
- Cron every day at 4pm 0 16 * * *
- Cron every day at 5pm 0 17 * * *
- Cron every day at 6pm 0 18 * * *
- Cron every day at 7pm 0 19 * * *
- Cron every day at 8pm 0 20 * * *
- Cron every day at 9pm 0 21 * * *
- Cron every day at 10pm 0 22 * * *
- Cron every day at 11pm 0 23 * * *
- Cron every weekday 0 0 * * 1-5
- Cron every weekday at 9am 0 9 * * 1-5
Have a different expression? Paste it into the cron expression tool, or browse all examples.