actionInAction

A minimal GitHub repository demonstrating scheduled and manually triggered GitHub Actions workflows.

What it does

A workflow runs automatically every 5 minutes (or on demand) and prints the current UTC time followed by "Hello world" to the console:

2026-04-29T17:25:00 UTC Hello world

The workflow is defined in .github/workflows/hello-world.yml.

How to run it manually

1. Open this repository on GitHub.
2. Click the Actions tab.
3. In the left sidebar, click Hello World.
4. Click the Run workflow button (top-right of the run list), then click Run workflow in the dropdown.
5. The run will appear in the list within seconds.

How to verify the job runs

1. Open this repository on GitHub.
2. Click the Actions tab at the top of the repository.
3. In the left sidebar, click Hello World to filter by this workflow.
4. You will see a list of completed (and possibly running) workflow runs, each timestamped.

How to see the console output

1. Click on any run in the list.

2. Click the hello job inside that run.

3. Expand the Print Hello World with UTC time step — you will see the output line, e.g.:

   2026-04-29T17:25:00 UTC Hello world
   

Notes

• GitHub Actions scheduled workflows may be delayed by 1–10 minutes during periods of high load on GitHub's infrastructure. The cron */5 * * * * means the job is queued every 5 minutes, but actual execution timing is best-effort.
• Scheduled workflows only run on the default branch (main).