Cron: Every 30 minutes

Runs the job every half hour.

*/30 * * * *

At minute 0 and 30 of every hour.

Field breakdown

MinuteHourDay of monthMonthDay of week
*/30****

The five fields are, in order: minute (0–59), hour (0–23), day of month (1–31), month (1–12), and day of week (0–6, Sunday = 0).

Common use case

Half-hourly report updates, data imports, or status syncs.

Watch out for

Some older cron implementations don’t support */30 — use the explicit form 0,30 * * * * for maximum compatibility.

Other common cron expressions

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