ramadan-times_skill

Overview

This skill provides intelligent Ramadan times with auto-detected location and multi-language support. It returns accurate sahur and iftar times, real-time countdowns, and weekly schedules for 100+ cities. It can send daily reminders and supports many languages including English, Turkish and Arabic.

How this skill works

The skill reads the user timezone or configured location and falls back to a default city if needed. It fetches sunrise/sunset times from reliable APIs and applies prayer-time calculations or fallbacks for accuracy. Users can override the detected city and request language-specific responses; it also computes time-until iftar and can produce weekly schedules or cron-driven reminders.

When to use it

• Ask for today’s iftar or sahur time for your detected location
• Request a city-specific Ramadan schedule (e.g., “Istanbul iftar”)
• Get a countdown to iftar or sahur in your preferred language
• Set up daily iftar reminders via cron or scheduled notifications
• Fetch an entire week’s Ramadan timetable for planning

Best practices

• Provide permission to read timezone/location for accurate local times
• Specify city name when traveling or when timezone is ambiguous
• Choose preferred language for consistent responses
• Use weekly schedule for meal planning and community announcements
• Validate reminder cron entries in your scheduler before enabling

Example use cases

• User asks “When is iftar?” and receives a localized, language-matched response with countdown
• Admin schedules daily reminders: “Iftara 2 saat kaldı!” via cron to a group chat
• User requests a week view: “Show next week’s sahur/iftar for London” for meal planning
• Traveler overrides auto-location: “Dubai iftar time” to get precise times while abroad
• Developer integrates reminders into a community bot for daily notifications