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Originally Posted by john_rsd

I do not think cron jobs under vb are true crons.

I know the scheduled task manager within vb cannot execute by itself without users actually visiting the site, my assumption is no actual timer routines actually exist and the tasks rely on user hits to the site in order to trigger the code execution (psuedo scheduled) to check time and compare against tasks around same time or they do not execute.

John, the vbcron isn?t a cronjob based on the server time. You?ll find $cronimage in several templates. Every time this template is called $cronimage triggers the vbcronjob. So you?re right - the vbcron is based on hits.