Nightly at 02:00 UTC

Why this pattern

Two o'clock in the morning is the canonical "quiet hours" window — past the last batch of nightly user activity in the Americas, before the first European users start their day. 0 2 * * * runs once per day at 02:00.

Variations

• 03:30 nightly: 30 3 * * *
• Twice nightly (02:00 and 04:00): 0 2,4 * * *
• Daily at noon: 0 12 * * *

Platform notes

GitHub Actions runs schedules in UTC only, so "02:00 nightly" in cron is 02:00 UTC — which is the middle of the afternoon in some Asia-Pacific timezones. AWS EventBridge Scheduler and Kubernetes .spec.timeZone (stable since v1.27) both respect a timezone field, so use those if you want literal "local 02:00".