diff --git a/locales/config.yaml b/locales/config.yaml
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+# This is the project-specific configuration file for setting up
+# fast_gettext for your project.
+gettext:
+  # This is used for the name of the .pot and .po files; they will be
+  # called <project_name>.pot?
+  project_name: puppetlabs-cron_core
+  # This is used in comments in the .pot and .po files to indicate what
+  # project the files belong to and should bea little more desctiptive than
+  # <project_name>
+  package_name: puppetlabs-cron_core
+  # The locale that the default messages in the .pot file are in
+  default_locale: en
+  # The email used for sending bug reports.
+  bugs_address: docs@puppet.com
+  # The holder of the copyright.
+  copyright_holder: Puppet, Inc.
+  # This determines which comments in code should be eligible for translation.
+  # Any comments that start with this string will be externalized. (Leave
+  # empty to include all.)
+  comments_tag: TRANSLATOR
+  # Patterns for +Dir.glob+ used to find all files that might contain
+  # translatable content, relative to the project root directory
+  source_files:
+    - './lib/**/*.rb'
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diff --git a/locales/puppetlabs-cron_core.pot b/locales/puppetlabs-cron_core.pot
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+# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
+# Copyright (C) 2018 Puppet, Inc.
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the puppetlabs-cron_core package.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, 2018.
+#
+#, fuzzy
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: puppetlabs-cron_core \n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: docs@puppet.com\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2018-08-23 13:54-0700\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: 2018-08-23 13:54-0700\n"
+"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
+"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
+"Language: \n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+"Plural-Forms: nplurals=INTEGER; plural=EXPRESSION;\n"
+
+#: ../lib/puppet/provider/cron/crontab.rb:59
+msgid "Line got parsed as a crontab entry but cannot be handled. Please file a bug with the contents of your crontab"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: ../lib/puppet/provider/cron/crontab.rb:102
+msgid "no command specified, cannot create"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: ../lib/puppet/type/cron.rb:191
+msgid "%{value} is not a valid %{name}"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: ../lib/puppet/type/cron.rb:249
+msgid "Invalid special schedule %{value}"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: ../lib/puppet/type/cron.rb:326
+msgid "Invalid environment setting %{value}"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: ../lib/puppet/type/cron.rb:420
+msgid "%{cron} cannot specify both a special schedule and a value for %{field}"
+msgstr ""