[BUG REPORT] Issue with Days in Schedule Trigger

Describe the problem/error/question

The scheduler trigger when using trigger interval “days” and days between triggers is set to “3” is not working, but if you set days between triggers to “1” it works normally


Does not trigger


Triggers normally

Please share your workflow

Information on your n8n setup

  • n8n version: 1.65.2
  • Running n8n via n8n cloud

P.S. I also poste a similar issue which is still not resolved: Issue with Seconds in Scheduling Triggers (Self-Hosted v1.51.2)

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It would be better to use cron jobs, that way you can define you days, hours and seconds specifically for your scheduler to run.

If you can tell me when and on what duration do you want your scheduler to run, I’ll create a cron and share.

I think it behaves the same, but I’ll double check it.

Seems like with cron job you can not set the value similar to “days between triggers”, you can only use */3 which would trigger on the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th, 15th, 18th, 21st, 24th, 27th, and 30th of each month.

And this is probably also the reason why “days between triggers” does not work, as N8N switched to cron jobs for their scheduler. Same as why this one does not work: Issue with Seconds in Scheduling Triggers (Self-Hosted v1.51.2)

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Here are some more observation i tried the cron job:

50 22 */5 * *

Activated it on 5.11.2024 at 22:45, but it also did not trigger in 5 minutes from time of activation.

So basically if you set days between triggers or cronjob to run every day it will work, everything else does not work.

Hi, any inputs from the n8n devs?

Kind Regards

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