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Comment on: Show HN: Cron-naturally – plain English to cron and back, in the browser
I built this because I can never remember cron's syntax. The ordering of the slots, what */ vs , vs - do, day-of-week being 0-indexed, and how many fields there even are. "Every 5 minutes" is trivial compared to */5 * * * * which I just had to stop and count the stars to make sure I hadn't forgotten one. The format requires me to second guess myself every. single. time.cronstrue already does cron → English well, but I wanted both directions for this UX plus the next-run preview in one small library, so cron-naturally translates both ways. Type "every weekday at 9am" and it'll return 0 9 * * 1-