How to run cron once, daily at 10pm

To run once, daily at 10PM you should do something like this:

0 22 * * *

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Here are some more examples

• Run every 6 hours at 46 mins past the hour:

  46 */6 * * *

• Run at 2:10 am:

  10 2 * * *

• Run at 3:15 am:

  15 3 * * *

• Run at 4:20 am:

  20 4 * * *

• Run at 5:31 am:

  31 5 * * *

• Run at 5:31 pm:

  31 17 * * *

It's running every minute of the hour 22 I guess. Try the following to run it every first minute of the hour 22:

0 22 * * * ....