A bug with "evety six month" (*/6)

[Deliaz]

Hi,

I am playing aroung with the component on the Storybook page and noticed that the following expression
0 5 1 */6 * (Every 6 months, first day of the month, at 5AM), when I input it, is being translated to 0 0 * 1,7 * which wouldn't be interpret correctly.

Does the component support */6 rule?

[xrutayisire]

Hi,

Oh nice catch. But I guess it's more a visual bug no? 1,7 means the same as */6 right?

[Deliaz]

Hey @xrutayisire, thanks for the quick reply.

Unfortunately, it wouldn't be the same. While */6 could overlap with 1,7 if configured at the beginning of the year, */6 actually means "every 6 months." This means that if the cron job starts in a different month, the selected months would shift accordingly, making them different from 1,7, which is fixed to January and July.

Update: ChatGPT failed me ^

Yes, it seems like a presentational bug. If you can give me the right direction, I can try to look at this.

[xrutayisire]

Hi,

Thank you! Code is a bit old, could be wrong, but I would start by adding a unit test for that and write console.log. I see already a test that cover */2 here.

I would check first partToString function.