Weekly
0 9 * * 1-5
Run Monday to Friday at 09:00.
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What 0 9 * * 1-5 means
0 9 * * 1-5 is the quintessential "working-day start" schedule: 9am, Monday through Friday. It combines a specific hour with the 1-5 weekday range to deliver the morning kickoff only on days people are actually working.
This is the single most useful weekday pattern for human-facing automation, standups, daily-but-only-on-workdays reports, and morning reminders all live here. It is the weekday cousin of the everyday 0 9 * * *.
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 | 9 | hour = 9 |
| 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 9am 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 9 * * 1-5 | |
| GitHub Actions | 0 9 * * 1-5 | |
| Kubernetes CronJob | 0 9 * * 1-5 | |
| Vercel Cron | 0 9 * * 1-5 | |
| Quartz | 0 0 9 ? * 1-5 * | |
| Spring | 0 0 9 ? * 1-5 | |
| AWS EventBridge | 0 9 ? * 1-5 * |
When you would use 0 9 * * 1-5
- Working-day standup prompts and daily summaries.
- Morning reports that should skip weekends.
- Daily reminders for business processes.
The gotcha worth knowing
Still fires on bank holidays that fall on weekdays. Wrap human-facing sends in a holiday check, and remember the hour is the server's, convert per-user if the audience spans zones.
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0 9 * * 1-5 FAQ
What does the cron expression 0 9 * * 1-5 mean?
0 9 * * 1-5 means: Run Monday to Friday at 09:00. 0 9 * * 1-5 is the quintessential "working-day start" schedule: 9am, Monday through Friday. It combines a specific hour with the 1-5 weekday range to deliver the morning kickoff only on days people are actually working.
How do I write "weekdays at 9am" in GitHub Actions?
Use 0 9 * * 1-5 in the schedule's cron field. Still fires on bank holidays that fall on weekdays. Wrap human-facing sends in a holiday check, and remember the hour is the server's, convert per-user if the audience spans zones.
How do I write "weekdays at 9am" for AWS EventBridge?
EventBridge uses six fields with a required year and a ? placeholder in one day field: 0 9 ? * 1-5 *. Wrap it as cron(0 9 ? * 1-5 *) in the console or CloudFormation.
What is the Quartz equivalent of 0 9 * * 1-5?
Quartz is seconds-first with a trailing year, so the equivalent is 0 0 9 ? * 1-5 *. Remember Quartz numbers Sunday as 1, the opposite of Unix.
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