I want to use celery to execute a periodic task. According to the documentation: http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/userguide/periodic-tasks.html#entries, I wrote down the following code: app.conf.beat_schedule = { 'test_celery': { 'task': 'tasks.login.test_timertask', 'schedule': 60.0, } } but when I run it as follows: celery beat -A tasks.login --loglevel=info the first task is executed after 60s. I want to start the task once the worker starts rather than with 60 seconds delay. What should I do? Continue reading...