Weekly
0 10 * * 6,0
Run Saturday and Sunday at 10:00.
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What 0 10 * * 6,0 means
0 10 * * 6,0 uses the day-of-week list 6,0, Saturday and Sunday, to fire only at weekends, at 10am. It is the mirror image of the 1-5 weekday filter, for jobs that specifically belong to the weekend.
Weekend-only schedules show up for consumer products (where the weekend is the busy time), for maintenance that must avoid the working week, and for personal automation that runs only on days off.
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 | 10 | hour = 10 |
| Day of month | * | every day-of-month |
| Month | * | every month |
| Day of week | 6,0 | the specific values 6,0 of day-of-week |
Weekends at 10am 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 10 * * 6,0 | |
| GitHub Actions | 0 10 * * 6,0 | |
| Kubernetes CronJob | 0 10 * * 6,0 | |
| Vercel Cron | 0 10 * * 6,0 | |
| Quartz | 0 0 10 ? * 6,0 * | |
| Spring | 0 0 10 ? * 6,0 | |
| AWS EventBridge | 0 10 ? * 6,0 * |
When you would use 0 10 * * 6,0
- Consumer-facing weekend digests or promotions.
- Weekend-only maintenance that must avoid weekday traffic.
- Personal or hobby automations scheduled for days off.
The gotcha worth knowing
Use 6,0 (Sat, Sun), not 6-0, a descending range is invalid. You can also write 0,6 or 6,7; all three name the same two days because 0 and 7 both mean Sunday.
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0 10 * * 6,0 FAQ
What does the cron expression 0 10 * * 6,0 mean?
0 10 * * 6,0 means: Run Saturday and Sunday at 10:00. 0 10 * * 6,0 uses the day-of-week list 6,0, Saturday and Sunday, to fire only at weekends, at 10am. It is the mirror image of the 1-5 weekday filter, for jobs that specifically belong to the weekend.
How do I write "weekends at 10am" in GitHub Actions?
Use 0 10 * * 6,0 in the schedule's cron field. Use 6,0 (Sat, Sun), not 6-0, a descending range is invalid. You can also write 0,6 or 6,7; all three name the same two days because 0 and 7 both mean Sunday.
How do I write "weekends at 10am" for AWS EventBridge?
EventBridge uses six fields with a required year and a ? placeholder in one day field: 0 10 ? * 6,0 *. Wrap it as cron(0 10 ? * 6,0 *) in the console or CloudFormation.
What is the Quartz equivalent of 0 10 * * 6,0?
Quartz is seconds-first with a trailing year, so the equivalent is 0 0 10 ? * 6,0 *. Remember Quartz numbers Sunday as 1, the opposite of Unix.
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