Cron expression explainer / Every Monday at 9am

Cron expression for every Monday at 9am: 0 9 * * 1

Runs once a week. Day of week counts from 0 (Sunday) to 6 (Saturday); 7 also means Sunday.

At 09:00, on Monday.

0
Minute
9
Hour
*
Day of month
*
Month
1
Day of week
Next 10 runs in
  1. Mon, Oct 12, 2026, 09:00
  2. Mon, Oct 19, 2026, 09:00
  3. Mon, Oct 26, 2026, 09:00
  4. Mon, Nov 2, 2026, 09:00
  5. Mon, Nov 9, 2026, 09:00
  6. Mon, Nov 16, 2026, 09:00
  7. Mon, Nov 23, 2026, 09:00
  8. Mon, Nov 30, 2026, 09:00
  9. Mon, Dec 7, 2026, 09:00
  10. Mon, Dec 14, 2026, 09:00
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  • 9hour
  • *day of month: any value
  • *month: any value
  • 1day of week

Questions

What is the cron expression for every Monday at 9am?

0 9 * * 1. At 09:00, on Monday.

Which timezone will it run in?

Crontab on a server uses the server clock (often UTC). In RunLater you pick the timezone on each scheduled request, and daylight saving changes are handled for you.

What if the job fails?

Plain cron does not retry. RunLater retries a failed request (non-2xx or timeout) with exponential backoff, up to 10 attempts, and logs every attempt with the status code and response body.

Call a URL every Monday at 9am without running a server

Paste 0 9 * * 1 into a RunLater scheduled request with your URL, method, headers and body. It runs in the timezone you choose, retries failures and logs every response.

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