Cron Expression: 0 * * * *

At minute 0 of every hour (00:00, 01:00, 02:00, ...).

Field Breakdown

FieldValue
Minute0
Hour*
Day of Month*
Month*
Day of Week*

Common Use Case

Hourly batch jobs, log rotation.

Sample Fire Times (UTC)

WhenUnix Timestamp
2026-04-27 22:001777327200
2026-04-27 23:001777330800
2026-04-28 00:001777334400
2026-04-28 01:001777338000
2026-04-28 02:001777341600

Sample times computed at build; your scheduler will fire on its own clock.

Equivalents in Popular Schedulers

crontab (Linux/macOS)

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

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

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

AWS EventBridge (cron format)

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

Kubernetes CronJob

spec:
  schedule: "0 * * * *"

Other Common Cron Expressions

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