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What does 0 */2 * * * mean?

0 */2 * * *

Runs every 2 hours.

This is a cron schedule. Cron is the standard syntax used by Unix/Linux crontab, CI pipelines, and job schedulers to say when a task should run.

Next run times (UTC)
Sun Jul 19 2026 20:00:00 UTC
Sun Jul 19 2026 22:00:00 UTC
Mon Jul 20 2026 00:00:00 UTC
Mon Jul 20 2026 02:00:00 UTC
Mon Jul 20 2026 04:00:00 UTC
Mon Jul 20 2026 06:00:00 UTC

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