maennchen / maennchen/crontab

Human-readable crons?

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enhancement help wanted
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Elixir
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Description

Can support be added to convert Crons to human-readable strings? e.g. "Every Sunday at 6:00PM"

Ideally, this should also work with different timezones, e.g. you should be able to specify the timezone of the cron, and the target, e.g. if the Cron is UTC and you want it displayed in CST, it should be possible to do so.

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Research direction

No file or test is named in the issue. Start by reading the repository's Elixir cron parsing, composition, and execution-date functionality, then clarify the API needed for human-readable output and timezone conversion. Done means cron expressions can produce human-readable strings while supporting a source timezone and a display timezone.

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Assessment

Tech stack
elixir
Domain
backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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