Ques/Help How to automatically lock and unlock a specific thread using CRON?

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puterfixer

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Hello,

I have a thread that is supposed to be open for posts just 24 hours per month - on the 13th of each month, for people to vent their frustrations and get some laughs and group therapy of sorts. :)

So far the locking/unlocking was done manually, but it's annoying, and I'm sure there can be at least one way to automate it.

But... how? :)

The lowest hanging fruit would be to run two CRON jobs with the right parameters to lock or unlock the thread. This could be either some API call...

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