Cron: Every Tuesday
0 0 * * 2 fires once a week, every Tuesday at midnight — the day-of-week field's 2 corresponds to Tuesday in standard cron numbering (0=Sunday, 1=Monday). Tuesday schedules are common for teams that treat Monday as a catch-up day and prefer to kick off weekly automation once the week is properly underway.
0 0 * * 2
Examples & Variations
Common Mistakes
- Assuming a Tuesday schedule avoids Monday-morning traffic spikes — the job still needs to complete before Tuesday's own peak hours if it's resource-intensive.
- Using day-of-week 2 without double-checking the target system's numbering convention, since a small number of non-standard tools index days differently.
- Scheduling weekly release or deploy automation for Tuesday without accounting for time zones if your team is distributed — "Tuesday" on the server may already be Wednesday somewhere else.
Best Practices
- Tuesday is a common choice for release trains specifically because it avoids both Monday's backlog and Friday's pre-weekend risk — a reasonable default if your team doesn't have a strong preference.
- For distributed teams, compute the schedule against a specific timezone rather than server-local time to keep "Tuesday" meaningful for everyone.
- If a Tuesday job depends on data generated over the weekend, verify that weekend jobs have reliably completed before the Tuesday run starts.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Why do some teams prefer Tuesday for deploys over Monday?
- Monday often carries a backlog from the weekend and higher support load, so many teams treat it as a stabilization day and reserve Tuesday (or later) for changes that need calm attention if something goes wrong.
- How do I run something every Tuesday and Friday?
- List both days in the day-of-week field: 0 0 * * 2,5 fires at midnight on Tuesday and Friday.
- Does 0 0 * * 2 run on the 2nd of the month or every Tuesday?
- Every Tuesday — the 2 is in the day-of-week field (5th position), not day-of-month (3rd position). Mixing these up is one of the most common cron mistakes.