So nice!<p>For prior art (not GPT-3 based) in debian/ubuntu based distributions:<p><pre><code> /usr/share/doc/cron/examples/crontab2english.pl
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I use to use it like:<p><pre><code> perl /usr/share/doc/cron/examples/crontab2english.pl /etc/cron.d/myfile
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Also prior to crontab.guru:<p><pre><code> $ head -2 /usr/share/doc/cron/examples/crontab2english.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
#Time-stamp: "2001-07-29 16:07:28 MDT"
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21 years ago, more people did prefer english to cron :)
This is incredible. While there is still a decent rate of false-positives or errors, it's such a nicer user interface than the powerful yet hard-to-read cron syntax.<p>Any chance it could be made into a library/api?
A different take on the same idea: Cron tab Guru [1]. I use this tool all the time.<p>I'd love a CLI version of this tool, where I pass in the cron expression and it tells me the english translation.<p>[1] <a href="https://crontab.guru/" rel="nofollow">https://crontab.guru/</a>
This was inspired by previous work using GPT-3 to generate regex. It uses the new codex model and works surprisingly well.<p>Let me know if you get any interesting results!
I feel like AI is a poor fit for this domain, because the whole point of using a tool like this would be to check/ensure correctness. Perhaps it should at least also offer a precise translation back the other way?<p>Scheduled tasks are hard enough to debug as it is. The last thing I want to do is add more indeterminism!
Really cool project, but I <i>may</i> have found a mistake. Typing "21st night september" returns “At 12:00 AM, on day 21 of the month, only in September”. And I would expect it to be maybe 9-11:59pm, not midnight that morning. But maybe 'night' is just not very well defined?
> "every third thursday"<p>... nice. Other folks are beating ya up based on their first try but mine was exactly correct!<p>Adding to my cron tools bookmarks - cool stuff.
This is pretty great. It would be nice if it were able to handle exceptions, for example:<p>"The second Sunday of every month except in December"
This is so cool! Don't use cron jobs often but in love with the UI!<p>I made a similar tool [1] to convert English to Excel formulas but would def take a page out of your super clean look!<p>[1] <a href="https://www.tersho.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.tersho.com</a>
It's erroring out on me but I wanted to try one of my stackoverflow questions from long ago that still gets frequent votes:<p>Every 15 minutes except at 3AM?<p>Stackoverflow responses say it can't be done in one line.
Good tool .
I Tried: "On alternate Saturday at noon"<p>Not sure if it gave right results. but i think this is amazing stuff. Thanks for building it.