SimpleCronTabCron Four Times a Day
0 */6 * * *Every 6 hours
Next 10 Executions
Times shown in UTC
- Mon, May 18, 202612:00
- Mon, May 18, 202618:00
- Tue, May 19, 202600:00
- Tue, May 19, 202606:00
- Tue, May 19, 202612:00
- Tue, May 19, 202618:00
- Wed, May 20, 202600:00
- Wed, May 20, 202606:00
- Wed, May 20, 202612:00
- Wed, May 20, 202618:00
Field Breakdown
0Minute
0
*/6Hour
Every 6 hours
*Day of Month
Every day
*Month
Every month
*Day of Week
Every day of week
About This Schedule
The cron expression 0 */6 * * * fires every 6 hours — at midnight, 6:00 AM, noon, and 6:00 PM. Since 24 divides evenly by 6, the spacing is perfectly uniform.
Four-times-daily schedules work well for regularly updated data products: quarter-day analytics snapshots, periodic SLA monitoring, multi-timezone business-hour coverage, and regular API data pulls. The 6-hour cadence ensures nothing is more than 6 hours stale.
For four specific times rather than even spacing, use a list: 0 8,12,16,20 * * *. To restrict to weekdays: 0 */6 * * 1-5.