SimpleCronTabCron Every Day at 8 AM and 8 PM
0 8,20 * * *Every day at 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM
Next 10 Executions
Times shown in UTC
- Mon, May 18, 202620:00
- Tue, May 19, 202608:00
- Tue, May 19, 202620:00
- Wed, May 20, 202608:00
- Wed, May 20, 202620:00
- Thu, May 21, 202608:00
- Thu, May 21, 202620:00
- Fri, May 22, 202608:00
- Fri, May 22, 202620:00
- Sat, May 23, 202608:00
Field Breakdown
0Minute
0
8,20Hour
8,20
*Day of Month
Every day
*Month
Every month
*Day of Week
Every day of week
About This Schedule
The cron expression 0 8,20 * * * triggers twice daily at 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM, with 12-hour spacing. This schedule brackets the typical workday, running once before business starts and once after it ends.
Morning-and-evening schedules are popular for data pipeline bookends: the 8 AM run prepares fresh data for the workday, the 8 PM run processes the full day's activity. This pattern works for data warehouse loads, bi-daily reporting, monitoring schedule shifts, and shift-change notifications.
For weekday-only execution, add 1-5 to the day-of-week field: 0 8,20 * * 1-5.