SimpleCronTabCron Saturday at Midnight
0 0 * * 6Every Saturday at 12:00 AM
Next 10 Executions
Times shown in UTC
- Sat, May 23, 202600:00
- Sat, May 30, 202600:00
- Sat, Jun 6, 202600:00
- Sat, Jun 13, 202600:00
- Sat, Jun 20, 202600:00
- Sat, Jun 27, 202600:00
- Sat, Jul 4, 202600:00
- Sat, Jul 11, 202600:00
- Sat, Jul 18, 202600:00
- Sat, Jul 25, 202600:00
Field Breakdown
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*Day of Month
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6Day of Week
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About This Schedule
The cron expression 0 0 * * 6 fires at midnight on Saturday — the transition from Friday night to Saturday morning. This is the start of the weekend maintenance window for many organizations.
Saturday midnight is used for kicking off weekend batch processing, starting full system backups, initiating database migration scripts, beginning weekly data archival, and launching long-running analysis jobs. The full weekend ahead provides ample time for completion.
If you need to run at the end of Saturday instead, use 0 23 * * 6 (11 PM Saturday). For a true end-of-weekend trigger, 0 23 * * 0 runs Sunday night.