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Why a Scheduled Task has a "minute past" option?

I thought that I could run a script every 10 minute if I wished, but when I set "Hourly, 10 min past", the script just execute every 1 hour. So, What does mean "10 min past"?? I can't undertand why it needs a "x min past" value if the script will be executed after 1 hour anyway.

It means at X minutes past the hour. If you set it to 10, then your script will be run at 01:10, 02:10, 03:10, and so on, whereas if you set it to 25 then your script will be run at 01:25, 02:25, 03:25...

If you want to run a script every ten minutes, then you can schedule it multiple times -- say, at 0 past the hour, 10 past the hour, 20 past the hour, and so on.

Thanks @giles

Thanks @giles