Cron Explained

Have you ever found the cron format confusing? Did you ever need to know what is the "real" schedule? Are you tired of copy pasting the "2,3,4 */2 * * 4" into other online tools? This extension might come handy to you.

Features

Hover tooltips

When hovering over cron-like schedules, display a human friendly explanation in a tooltip.

Code lens

Show code lens action to make inserting explanation as comment easier.

Save as comment

Command allowing you add an inline comment with the explanation.

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

Settings	Description	Default value
cron-explained.hover.enabled	When enabled, the transcript is shown in a hover tooltip.	true
cron-explained.codeLens.enabled	When enabled, the transcript is shown as a code lens.	false
cron-explained.codeLens.showTranscript	Show the transcript of a cron string in a code lens.	true
cron-explained.codeLens.showCommentAction	Show action to insert comment for a cron string.	true
cron-explained.cronstrueOptions.use24HourTimeFormat	If set, descriptions will use a 24-hour clock.	true
cron-explained.cronstrueOptions.verbose	Whether to use a verbose description.	true
cron-explained.cronstrueOptions.locale	Enforce specific language for transcriptions.	Environment language
cron-explained.cronstrueOptions.dayOfWeekStartIndexZero	Whether to interpret cron expression day of week '1' as Sunday (false) or Monday (true).\n\n_(For example: AWS uses 1 as Sunday -> set option to false)_	true
cron-explained.cronstrueOptions.monthStartIndexZero	Whether to interpret January as '0' or '1'	true

Credit

1. unDraw for wonderful art.
2. cronstrue which provides the cron translations.