Cron for every 8 hours
Three runs a day: midnight, 08:00, and 16:00.
0 */8 * * *
At minute 0 past every 8th hour
Interpreted in UTC · approximately 3 runs per day
Things to check
Note
Interpreted in UTC
A cron expression has no timezone of its own — the scheduler's zone decides when it fires. These times are computed in UTC. The same expression on a host in another zone runs at a different moment.
Fix: Set the schedule timezone explicitly (TZ= or CRON_TZ= in crontab, `timeZone` in Kubernetes, or the scheduler's own setting). Vercel Cron Jobs always run in UTC.
Fields
- Minute
0 - At minute 0.
- Hour
*/8 - Every 8 hours.
- Day of month
* - Every day of the month.
- Month
* - Every month.
- Day of week
* - Every day of the week.
Next runs
- Sun, 2026-10-18, 00:00
- Sun, 2026-10-18, 08:00
- Sun, 2026-10-18, 16:00
- Mon, 2026-10-19, 00:00
- Mon, 2026-10-19, 08:00
- Mon, 2026-10-19, 16:00
- Tue, 2026-10-20, 00:00
- Tue, 2026-10-20, 08:00
Try a different expression or timezone
Times above are in UTC. Pick a timezone here to see this schedule in local time.
Call this from code or an agent
curl 'https://crontoenglish.com/api/v1/explain?expression=0%20*%2F8%20*%20*%20*'