Cron jobs not working

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Yeah, the cron tool is not great. The symptoms remind me about this topic:

Cron job runs twice, but only every third time

Hello, I have set up a cron job which inserts one row of data to the database. It is scheduled to run every 20 minutes, so there should be 3 entries per hour. The cron job is running fine, however, when I check the timestamps in the database, they look pretty much like this: 17:00 17:01 17:20 17:40 18:00 18:01 18:20 18:40 19:00 19:01 etc… Basically the cron job is run twice every third time. There are no repeat conditions in the script, nothing like this. If I run it manually, th…

Maybe if you select “0” in the minutes or some other value than blank for the Minutes field it will work? I’m not sure it will work, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it did.