Cron Job Every Day at 10:00 AM – Expression & Examples
The cron expression 0 10 * * * triggers once per day at 10:00 AM server time, every day of the week and every month of the year. The fields break down as: minute 0, hour 10, with wildcards for day-of-month, month, and day-of-week, meaning no day is skipped. This makes it a reliable fixed daily cadence, suitable for any task that should run during business hours each morning.
How It Works
The cron expression 0 10 * * * triggers once per day at 10:00 AM server time, every day of the week and every month of the year. The fields break down as: minute 0, hour 10, with wildcards for day-of-month, month, and day-of-week, meaning no day is skipped. This makes it a reliable fixed daily cadence, suitable for any task that should run during business hours each morning.
Common Use Cases
- Send a daily morning digest email or newsletter to users at the start of the business day
- Generate and deliver automated daily reports (sales summaries, analytics snapshots, or KPI dashboards) to stakeholders
- Trigger a daily data synchronization job that pulls updates from a third-party API each morning before work begins
- Run a scheduled database maintenance or cache warm-up task so the application is fully primed before peak morning traffic
Monitor a Job on This Schedule
Writing the 0 10 * * * schedule is only half the job. Cron fires silently — if the run is skipped, the server is down, or the script fails, nothing tells you. A heartbeat monitor closes that gap: your job pings a URL on success, and you get an alert the moment an expected run goes missing. CronJobPro can run this schedule for you as an HTTP job, or watch a job you run elsewhere (cron, CI, Kubernetes) with a dead-man's-switch check.
Schedule This Cron Job Now
Create a free CronJobPro account and use 0 10 * * * to schedule HTTP requests automatically — with monitoring, retries, and notifications built in.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does 0 10 * * * mean in cron?
The cron expression 0 10 * * * triggers once per day at 10:00 AM server time, every day of the week and every month of the year. The fields break down as: minute 0, hour 10, with wildcards for day-of-month, month, and day-of-week, meaning no day is skipped. This makes it a reliable fixed daily cadence, suitable for any task that should run during business hours each morning.
How do I use this cron expression?
On Linux/macOS, edit your crontab with crontab -e and add:0 10 * * * /path/to/your/script.sh
Or use CronJobPro to schedule HTTP requests with this expression — no server required.
What timezone does cron use?
By default, cron uses the system timezone. CronJobPro lets you set a specific timezone per job, so your schedules are predictable regardless of server location.