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At minute 0, during hours 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, on Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu and Fri.

Why use this schedule

Hourly, but only from 9 to 17 on weekdays, so nothing runs overnight or at weekends.

• Hourly stock or price snapshots
• Support SLA checks
• Syncing with a partner that only works in office hours

First runs, as an example

Starting from 1 January 2027, evaluated in UTC:

Hourly during business hours on weekdays in every dialect

Need to translate a different expression? Use the cron converter.

Ready-to-use Spring config

Drop this into your project. The expression is the one above.

@Scheduled(cron = "0 0 9-17 * * 1-5", zone = "UTC")
public void runJob() {
    // ...
}

app.job.cron=0 0 9-17 * * 1-5
# @Scheduled(cron = "${app.job.cron}")

The Spring fields, in order: second (0-59), minute (0-59), hour (0-23), day-of-month (1-31), month (1-12), day-of-week (0-7, 0 and 7 = Sunday).

Things to watch out for in Spring

• Spring numbers Sunday as 0 (or 7), unlike Quartz. MON-FRI works and is the clearest.
• Spring uses six fields (no year). The leading 0 is the seconds field.
• Spring evaluates in the server time zone by default. Add zone = "UTC" (or any ZoneId) to @Scheduled to make it explicit.

The common mistake with this schedule

9-17 includes hour 17, so the last run is at 17:00, not 16:00. The range is inclusive.

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