assemblyscript-temporal

An implementation of TC39 Temporal for AssemblyScript, with an focus on non-timezone-aware classes and functionality.

Why?

AssemblyScript has minimal Date support, however, the JS Date API itself is terrible and people tend not to use it that often. As a result libraries like moment / luxon have become staple replacements. However, there is now a relatively mature TC39 proposal that adds greatly improved date support to JS.

Usage

This library currently supports the following types:

PlainDateTime

A PlainDateTime represents a calendar date and wall-clock time that does not carry time zone information, e.g. December 7th, 1995 at 3:00 PM (in the Gregorian calendar). For detailed documentation see the TC39 Temporal proposal website, this implementation follows the specification as closely as possible.

You can create a PlainDateTime from individual components, a string or an object literal:

datetime = new PlainDateTime(1976, 11, 18, 15, 23, 30, 123, 456, 789);
datetime.year; // 2019;
datetime.month; // 11;
// ...
datetime.nanosecond; // 789;

datetime = PlainDateTime.from("1976-11-18T12:34:56");
datetime.toString(); // "1976-11-18T12:34:56"

datetime = PlainDateTime.from({ year: 1966, month: 3, day: 3 });
datetime.toString(); // "1966-03-03T00:00:00"

There are various ways you can manipulate a date:

// use 'with' to copy a date but with various property values overriden
datetime = new PlainDateTime(1976, 11, 18, 15, 23, 30, 123, 456, 789);
datetime.with({ year: 2019 }).toString(); // "2019-11-18T15:23:30.123456789"

// use 'add' or 'substract' to add / subtract a duration
datetime = PlainDateTime.from("2020-01-12T15:00");
datetime.add({ months: 1 }).toString(); // "2020-02-12T15:00:00");

// add /  subtract support Duration objects or object literals
datetime.add(new Duration(1)).toString(); // "2021-01-12T15:00:00");

You can compare dates and check for equality

dt1 = PlainDateTime.from("1976-11-18");
dt2 = PlainDateTime.from("2019-10-29");
PlainDateTime.compare(dt1, dt1); // 0
PlainDateTime.compare(dt1, dt2); // -1
dt1.equals(dt1); // true

Currently PlainDateTime only supports the ISO 8601 (Gregorian) calendar.

PlainDate

A PlainDate object represents a calendar date that is not associated with a particular time or time zone, e.g. August 24th, 2006. For detailed documentation see the TC39 Temporal proposal website, this implementation follows the specification as closely as possible.

The PlainDate API is almost identical to PlainDateTime, so see above for API usage examples.

PlainTime

A PlainTime object represents a wall-clock time that is not associated with a particular date or time zone, e.g. 7:39 PM. For detailed documentation see the TC39 Temporal proposal website, this implementation follows the specification as closely as possible.

The PlainTime API is almost identical to PlainDateTime, so see above for API usage examples.

PlainMonthDay

A date without a year component. This is useful to express things like "Bastille Day is on the 14th of July". For detailed documentation see the TC39 Temporal proposal website , this implementation follows the specification as closely as possible.

const monthDay = PlainMonthDay.from({ month: 7, day: 14 }); // => 07-14
const date = monthDay.toPlainDate({ year: 2030 }); // => 2030-07-14
date.dayOfWeek; // => 7

The PlainMonthDay API is almost identical to PlainDateTime, so see above for more API usage examples.

PlainYearMonth

A date without a day component. This is useful to express things like "the October 2020 meeting". For detailed documentation see the TC39 Temporal proposal website , this implementation follows the specification as closely as possible.

The PlainYearMonth API is almost identical to PlainDateTime, so see above for API usage examples.

Duration

A Duration represents a duration of time which can be used in date/time arithmetic. For detailed documentation see the TC39 Temporal proposal website

Here's a small example, showing just some of wha you can do with durations:

// create a duration
const duration = Duration.from({ days: 1, minutes: 5 });
// add another duration to the first one
const duration2 = duration.add({ days: 2, minutes: 5 })};
duration2.toString(); // "P3DT10M"

Now

The Now object has several methods which give information about the current time and date.

dateTime = Now.plainDateTimeISO();
dateTime.toString(); // 2021-04-01T12:05:47.357

Contributing

This project is open source, MIT licensed and your contributions are very much welcomed.

There is a brief document that outlines implementation progress and priorities.