iterdate

Iterators for time ranges to iterate in steps of years, months, days, hours, minutes, or seconds.

years(start, end, step = 1)

Use to iterate between start and end in steps of step years. start and end must be Dates. step must be >= 1 and defaults to 1.

Iterators are available for years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds.

Example:

import {
  days,
} from './dist/iterdate.mjs';

const startDate = new Date('2023-06-10T04:01:51.167Z');
const endDate = new Date('2023-06-13T04:01:51.167Z');

for (const value of days(startDate, endDate)) {
  console.log(value.toLocaleString('en-US'));
}

// Output:
// 6/10/2023, 12:00:00 AM
// 6/11/2023, 12:00:00 AM
// 6/12/2023, 12:00:00 AM

The returned date is set to the start of the respective interval, meaning for days(), for example, the hour, minute, second, and millisecond are set to 0.

makeYmdHmsDate(date)

In addition to the iterators, make... functions are exported that return a date used by the iterators to generate start and end dates. These set the other values (e.g. hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds in case of makeYmdDate()) to 0 (or 1 for day of month). See date2Array().

Example:

import {
  makeYmDate,
} from './dist/iterdate.mjs';

// makeYmDate: Keep only year and month. Set everything else to start
// of June 2023.
const d = makeYmDate(new Date('2023-06-10T04:01:51.167Z'));
console.log(d.toLocaleString('en-US'));

// Output:
// 6/1/2023, 12:00:00 AM

The following functions are available: makeYmdHmsDate, makeYmdHmDate, makeYmdHDate, makeYmdDate, makeYmDate, makeYDate.

date2Array(date, precision = 7, partial = false)

Finally, date2Array(date, precision, partial) is exported. It's what is behind everything else, and converts a Date into an Array. It uses only the first precision values from the date, so for precision = 3 it uses year, month and day, while setting hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds to 0.

Since the day of a month is 1-based, it obviously sets it to 1 instead of 0.

Example:

import {
  date2Array,
} from './dist/iterdate.mjs';

const d = new Date('2023-06-10T04:01:51.167Z');
let ar = date2Array(d);
console.log(ar);
// Output (UTC+2):
// [2023, 5, 10, 6, 1, 51, 167]

// When `partial` is true, return only the first `precision` values:
ar = date2Array(d, 3, true);
console.log(ar);
// Output (UTC+2):
// [2023, 5, 10]