Queries related to GitHub Action

[ankit-sinha-18]

Q1. For how long workflow can run continuously??

Q2. How to do cron jobs in GitHub action?
I have tried this code For running every 10 minutes but code didn't run itself

on:
   schedule:
    - cron:  '*/10 * * * *'

Q3. Is timezone for cron job is UTC?? Can it be changed according to different timezone?

[aahnik]

• ans 1. for 72 hours
• ans 2. the tgcf-on-gh-action repo has been updated with an example
• ans 3 the time zone of cron is UTC, and cannot be changed. This is Github's feature, we can't do anything about it. You may use an online time converter to convert the time from IST to UTC

[ankit-sinha-18]

👉 This is the syntax of my yml file

name: tgcf-past

on:
  schedule:
    - cron:  '*/10 * * * *'



jobs:
  tgcf:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
          
      - uses: aahnik/tgcf@main
        env:
          TGCF_MODE: "past"
          API_ID: ${{ secrets.API_ID }}
          API_HASH: ${{ secrets.API_HASH }}
          SESSION_STRING: ${{ secrets.SESSION_STRING }}

      - name: Commit & Push changes
        uses: actions-js/push@master
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          branch: main
          message: push files changed

[aahnik]

your yml file looks all right. look at the actions tab in the github repo. Its weird if it does not run.

also allow workflow dispatch, so that it can be manually triggered.

[ankit-sinha-18]

https://github.com/ankit-sinha-18/tgcf-on-gh-action/actions/workflows/tgcf-past.yml

It worked manually, then it worked after 10 minutes as I scheduled,
But It didn't run again in 10 minute,(I have scheduled it for every 10 minute)

Plz check this
https://github.com/ankit-sinha-18/tgcf-on-gh-action/blob/main/.github/workflows/tgcf-past.yml

[ankit-sinha-18]

A schedule triggered now,but gap is 30 minute
Why it is so long,when I have scheduled it for 10 minute!!

[ankit-sinha-18]

I have scheduled it for every 10 minute but it is triggering on every 30 minute

It seems that minimum time gap for trigger is 30 minute but I had read somewhere that it is 5 minutes