I have a cron job that is set to run at midnight. I would like to know if this is midnight from the server timezone or is it as soon as i create the cron job i have to wait 24h until it's being executed?
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If your crontab is set to run at midnight then it will run every midnight according to the servers clock – Jon Weinraub Nov 03 '14 at 20:58
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You don't have to wait 24 hours. The cron in launched in the scheduled hour based on server's time.
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What if I chose it to execute every 12 hour? Will it be 12 hours from midnight or how will the 12 hour execute work? – spurrenirre Nov 03 '14 at 21:03
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You have to tell the cron at what hours your want to execute (min, hour, day/month, month and day/week). If you say 0 0/12 * * * the task will be executed at 0:00 and 12:00. – jherran Nov 03 '14 at 21:06