Every Monday

Use in your stack

# Every Monday at midnight
0 0 * * 1 /usr/local/bin/weekly-report.sh

# Equivalent with name form
0 0 * * MON /usr/local/bin/weekly-report.sh

{ "cron": "0 0 0 ? * MON", "timezone": "UTC" }

apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: weekly-report
spec:
  schedule: "0 0 * * 1"
  timeZone: "UTC"
  jobTemplate:
    spec:
      template:
        spec:
          containers:
          - name: report
            image: my-image:latest
          restartPolicy: OnFailure

cron(0 0 ? * MON *)

@Scheduled(cron = "0 0 0 * * MON")
public void everyMonday() { /* ... */ }

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 * * 1'

Next runs

Pick a timezone to see when this expression fires next.

Variations

Common use cases

• Weekly summary reports of the prior week's activity.
• Resetting weekly counters or quotas.
• Pulling fresh weekly data from a slower upstream system.
• Sending start-of-week emails to teams or customers.

Gotchas

• Day-of-week numbering: Unix uses Monday = 1, Sunday = 0. Quartz uses Monday = 2, Sunday = 1. The Quartz equivalent is `0 0 0 ? * MON` or `0 0 0 ? * 2`.
• If the timezone isn't pinned, "midnight Monday" can fire late Sunday in some timezones, depending on the server.
• AWS EventBridge: `0 0 ? * MON *`. Prefer name form (`MON`) over numeric — works across all dialects.

Frequently asked questions