Cron Job Every Day at 2:00 PM – Expression & Examples
The cron expression 0 14 * * * triggers at minute 0 of hour 14 (2:00 PM), every day of the month, every month, and every day of the week. This means your job fires once per day at precisely 2:00 PM server time, with no variation across months or weekdays. It is a straightforward daily schedule with no step or range behavior, so there are no edge cases around month boundaries or interval truncation.
How It Works
The cron expression 0 14 * * * triggers at minute 0 of hour 14 (2:00 PM), every day of the month, every month, and every day of the week. This means your job fires once per day at precisely 2:00 PM server time, with no variation across months or weekdays. It is a straightforward daily schedule with no step or range behavior, so there are no edge cases around month boundaries or interval truncation.
Common Use Cases
- Send a daily afternoon digest email to users summarizing activity from the morning
- Trigger a mid-day database backup or snapshot before peak evening traffic begins
- Run a report generation job so business reports are ready by the start of the afternoon work session
- Sync inventory or pricing data from a third-party supplier API that publishes updates at noon
Monitor a Job on This Schedule
Writing the 0 14 * * * 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 14 * * * to schedule HTTP requests automatically — with monitoring, retries, and notifications built in.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does 0 14 * * * mean in cron?
The cron expression 0 14 * * * triggers at minute 0 of hour 14 (2:00 PM), every day of the month, every month, and every day of the week. This means your job fires once per day at precisely 2:00 PM server time, with no variation across months or weekdays. It is a straightforward daily schedule with no step or range behavior, so there are no edge cases around month boundaries or interval truncation.
How do I use this cron expression?
On Linux/macOS, edit your crontab with crontab -e and add:0 14 * * * /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.