I am trying to use the scheduler module to post news stories on our website. I have tested it out and have posted stories at different times of the day but it will not run at the stated time. All of the posts run at 12:00 a.m. when cron runs. I had the system admin change the time that cron runs to every half hour and hour. Don't know if this will help but will test it. Can anyone give me some insight on this? Your help is greatly appreciated.

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eric-alexander schaefer commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Scheduler does only run when cron runs. Web applications do not run by them self. They only run when they are accessed with a browser or a cron job (which simulates the browser access). (See http://drupal.org/node/108984)

It is actually a good idea to have cron run at least once an hour. If you need to have stories scheduled at a finer granularity you can set up a separate cron job that instead of calling http://yoursite/cron.php calls http://yoursite/scheduler/cron which is a lightweight scheduler-only cron script.