Cron expression tester0 0 * * 0

What does 0 0 * * 0 mean?

Every Sunday at midnight. Runs once a week, on Sunday at 00:00.

Weekly cleanup and reporting. In cron, Sunday is day 0 (and 7 also means Sunday). Equivalent to the non-standard @weekly.

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Field-by-field breakdown

ValueFieldMeaning
0Minute (0–59)exactly 0
0Hour (0–23)exactly 0
*Day of month (1–31)every value
*Month (1–12)every value
0Day of week (0–6, Sun=0)exactly 0

Standard 5-field Vixie/POSIX cron: minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week. Cron uses the server's local timezone unless configured otherwise. Non-standard extensions (@daily, L, W, #, seconds) aren't evaluated here.

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Related cron schedules

ScheduleMeaning
0 0 * * 1Every Monday at midnight
0 9 * * 1-5Every weekday at 9:00 AM
0 0 * * 6,0Every weekend (Sat & Sun) at midnight
0 0 1 * *First day of every month at midnight
0 0 1 1 *Once a year (Jan 1 at midnight)

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