Cron Expression: 0 17 * * 5

At 17:00 every Friday.

Field Breakdown

FieldValue
Minute0
Hour17
Day of Month*
Month*
Day of Week5

Common Use Case

Weekly wrap-up reports, end-of-week summaries.

Equivalents in Popular Schedulers

crontab (Linux/macOS)

0 17 * * 5 /path/to/your/script.sh

GitHub Actions (.github/workflows/*.yml)

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 17 * * 5'

AWS EventBridge (cron format)

cron(0 17 * * 5)    # Note: AWS uses 6 fields with year

Kubernetes CronJob

spec:
  schedule: "0 17 * * 5"

Other Common Cron Expressions

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