Word Usage – Saying Something Will Happen at Exact Minutes Every Hour

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I am coding a task scheduler. One of the options allows the user to select a task to be performed every hour at X minutes (ie. 00:45, 01:45, 02:45… 23:45).

Since I don't want to clutter the UI, I would like to know a short way of expressing this.

Assuming the user wants the task to be performed every hour at 45, these are the ways I have thought about, but they all sound weird to me.

  • Perform at 45 minutes (hourly)
  • Perform every 1 hour at minute 45
  • Perform at 00:45 (every hour)
  • Perform at minute 45 (hourly)

Is there a better way to express this?

EDIT: Another way may be "Perform hourly at :45 mins"

Best Answer

For (00:45, 01:45, 02:45... 23:45) I would write:

Perform hourly, at 45 minutes past the hour.

where "the hour" refers to the top of the hour (:00).

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