Spark Engine Time

A DateTime library which extends Luxon to add parsing, pretty printing, and comparison.

parse(date, options)

This will automatically parse any string which matches the date formats ISO, SQL, HTTP, RFC2822. It can parse epoc time in milliseconds by passing { millis: true } in the options hash.

options:

• millis, Boolean: parse the date as epoc time in milliseconds.
• format, String: set a specific format for parsing the date string. See custom formatting below.

Returns: a Luxon DateTime object (or false if it cannot be parsed). Luxon has many wonderful features, seriously check out that link.

isBefore(time1, time2)

This parses both times and returns true if time1 comes before time2.

isAfter(time1, time2)

This parses both times and returns true if time1 comes after time2.

isBetween(time, start, end)

This parses all three times and returns true if time comes between start and end.

prettyPrint(date, options)

This works just like parse except that it converts dates to nicely formatted strings (omiting insignificant digits and formatting markers).

You can optionall pass a timezone or a formatting option.

• zone: 'local' - which zone to render the string. Accepts: an IANA zone supported by the host environment, a fixed-offset name of the form 'UTC+3', or the strings 'local' or 'utc'. You may also supply an instance of a luxon's Zone class. Defaults to local.
• millis: true - Parse the date as epoc time in milliseconds.

Custom Formatting

You may define a custom format for parsing dates using the format option. For example:

time.parse("08 30 1982", { format: "MM dd yyyy" })
time.parse("8 30 1982 10:32 PM -05:00", { format: "M dd yyyy hh:mm a ZZ" })
time.parse("August 30 1982 America/Chicago", { format: "MMMM dd yyyy z" })

For a full list of options, refer to the table of tokens in the Luxon documentation.