I have a flow which is injecting timestamp on debug console for every 8 hours.
Now, lets consider at 8 AM I have started flow, so it will inject timestamp at 8 AM and next time it injects after 8 hours i.e at 4PM.
If in case, node red suddenly stopped due to some reason.When I restart node red it will start injecting and calculate 8 hours from that time. My requirement is it should not happen as it should inject after 8 hours from 8 Am only. i.e at 4 PM. How can achieve this?
I think you need to set the inject node a bit more.
You would need 3 of them.
All set at their respective times. 08:00, 16:00 and 00:00
[{"id":"6325808a.0d9d8","type":"inject","z":"88de1ac2.8b8c38","name":"","props":[{"p":"payload"},{"p":"topic","vt":"str"}],"repeat":"","crontab":"00 16 * * *","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"date","x":180,"y":1020,"wires":[[]]}]
Or use a cron node. (cron-plus for instance)
That allows more detailed events.
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node-red-contrib-cron-plus node is infinitely flexible...
or
And you can send the output from 1 output or 3 outputs...
Thanks for the help 
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