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0 17 * * 1-5
Run Monday to Friday at 17:00.
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What 0 17 * * 1-5 means
0 17 * * 1-5 fires at 5pm on working days only, the end-of-business-day counterpart to the 9am start. The 1-5 range keeps it off the weekend, and 17 is 5pm in 24-hour time.
End-of-working-day jobs close out each business day: the daily wrap-up, the end-of-day reconciliation, or kicking off processing that can finish overnight. Skipping weekends matters here because there is no "business day" to close on Saturday or Sunday.
Field-by-field breakdown
Unix cron has five fields. Here is what each one is doing in this expression:
| Field | Value | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Minute | 0 | minute = 0 |
| Hour | 17 | hour = 17 |
| Day of month | * | every day-of-month |
| Month | * | every month |
| Day of week | 1-5 | the range 1-5 (inclusive) of day-of-week |
Weekdays at 5pm in every scheduler
The same cadence written for the seven cron dialects you are most likely to meet. Copy the line for the system you target, the field count and day-of-week numbering differ between them.
| Scheduler | Expression | Copy |
|---|---|---|
| Unix / crontab | 0 17 * * 1-5 | |
| GitHub Actions | 0 17 * * 1-5 | |
| Kubernetes CronJob | 0 17 * * 1-5 | |
| Vercel Cron | 0 17 * * 1-5 | |
| Quartz | 0 0 17 ? * 1-5 * | |
| Spring | 0 0 17 ? * 1-5 | |
| AWS EventBridge | 0 17 ? * 1-5 * |
When you would use 0 17 * * 1-5
- End-of-business-day summaries and reconciliations.
- Daily close jobs for finance or operations.
- Triggering overnight processing only after working days.
The gotcha worth knowing
Like all weekday schedules, this ignores holidays. A Friday-before-a-long-weekend close may need to behave differently, handle that in the job, not the cron.
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0 17 * * 1-5 FAQ
What does the cron expression 0 17 * * 1-5 mean?
0 17 * * 1-5 means: Run Monday to Friday at 17:00. 0 17 * * 1-5 fires at 5pm on working days only, the end-of-business-day counterpart to the 9am start. The 1-5 range keeps it off the weekend, and 17 is 5pm in 24-hour time.
How do I write "weekdays at 5pm" in GitHub Actions?
Use 0 17 * * 1-5 in the schedule's cron field. Like all weekday schedules, this ignores holidays. A Friday-before-a-long-weekend close may need to behave differently, handle that in the job, not the cron.
How do I write "weekdays at 5pm" for AWS EventBridge?
EventBridge uses six fields with a required year and a ? placeholder in one day field: 0 17 ? * 1-5 *. Wrap it as cron(0 17 ? * 1-5 *) in the console or CloudFormation.
What is the Quartz equivalent of 0 17 * * 1-5?
Quartz is seconds-first with a trailing year, so the equivalent is 0 0 17 ? * 1-5 *. Remember Quartz numbers Sunday as 1, the opposite of Unix.
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