Every Friday at 5 PM

End-of-week summaries, timesheet reminders and weekly backups before the weekend.

Checked with the same parser Bex uses to validate schedules. Next run times are computed in your browser.

Cron expression

0 17 * * 5

minute	0
hour	17
day of month	*
month	*
day of week	5

Watch out for

Friday 17:00 UTC is Saturday morning in parts of Asia-Pacific; your 'end of week' may not be theirs.
Bex does not set a per-job time zone: the cluster controller's clock decides. Bex's own next-run projection assumes UTC, as shown here.

Next runs

Calculating the next runs…

Edit or check this expression in the cron checker

How to write it

crontab

0 17 * * 5 /usr/local/bin/my-job

Kubernetes CronJob

apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: my-job
spec:
  schedule: "0 17 * * 5"
  concurrencyPolicy: Forbid
  jobTemplate:
    spec:
      template:
        spec:
          restartPolicy: Never
          containers:
            - name: my-job
              image: my-image

GitHub Actions

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

render.yaml (Bex cron job)

services:
  - name: my-cron-job
    type: cron
    runtime: docker
    schedule: "0 17 * * 5"

Related schedules

Every Monday at 9 AM 0 9 * * 1
Every weekend day 0 0 * * 0,6

Run this schedule as a cron job on Bex: declare it in render.yaml and Bex keeps the run history and logs for every execution.

Cron jobs on Bex