The Inject node was failing in advanced time settings. That's why projects had to install external cron packages. I used the cronti package to set up a advanced cron. The cronti package converts the timing expressions used in daily life into crontime expression. The inject node needed such a packag…

Thanks everyone for the feedback. The GPL license makes it mandatory to publish only free software, open source code. Node-red is an open source project and has a free software philosophy. Why would the GPL license be the sticking point? There may be a detail about this that I don't know. I am the …

[image] buglss: Why would the GPL license be the sticking point? It is a restrictive license that some commercial organisations can't or won't work with. Apache 2, MIT and other open source licenses allow commercial derivatives and there are a lot of companies using Node-RED in that way. Inde…

Thank you for your feedback. I realized that I needed to do more research on licenses. I will change the license of the cronti package to Apache-2.0.

[image] TotallyInformation: IBM don't allow the use of GPL. That isn't the case. It just takes more approvals to include GPL (and similar) licenses - so you have to be certain it's worth the effort. if there are equivalent, more widely used libraries that have a more friendly OSS license, the…

The cronti package version used in the inject node has been upgraded. Release version is v3.0.0. npm: cronti - npm Release Notes: Release v3.0.0 · buglss/cronti · GitHub Summary: onDay method has been removed. Instead onDate method has been extended. License changed GPL-3.0 to Apache-2.0

Forgive my ignorance, but what is gg.aa.yyyy? I would have expected to see dd.mm.yyyy or is it a regional thing?

It's a regional thing. The browser does it automatically according to the input type. I use it from Turkey location, it writes Turkish equivalents :slight_smile:

Just to note, I still wouldn't personally wish to see this in the core inject node.

I also wouldn’t want to see it in the inject node.

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