🕰️ Text2Time: Natural Language Date Parser 🚀

Text2Time is a rad JavaScript class that turns human-friendly date expressions into actual dates and cron expressions. It's like having a time-traveling assistant in your code! 😎

🌟 Features

• Parse natural language date inputs
• Generate cron expressions
• Supports various time formats and intervals

🚀 Getting Started

First, import the Text2Time class:

const t2t = new Text2Time();

🔮 Parsing Dates

Use the parse method to convert text to dates:

const result = t2t.parse('next tuesday');
console.log(result.date); // Next Tuesday's date

🔮 Parsing Dates

🎭 Examples for next

const t2t = new Text2Time({ now: new Date('2023-05-15T12:00:00') });

t2t.next('tuesday').date // -> 2023-05-16 Tuesday 12:00
t2t.next('july second week friday').date // -> 2023-07-14 Friday 12:00
t2t.next('16 september').date // -> 2023-09-16 Saturday 12:00
t2t.next('july second week friday 15:15:10').date // -> 2023-07-14 Friday 15:15:10
t2t.next('30 11:11:11').date // -> 2023-05-30 Friday 11:11:11

// For date ranges
const result = t2t.next('august monday to thursday');
result.date // -> 2023-08-07 Monday 12:00
result.ends // -> 2023-08-10 Thursday 12:00

🎭 Examples for add

const t2t = new Text2Time({ now: new Date('2023-05-15T12:00:00') });

t2t.next('add 1 day').date // -> 2023-05-16 Tuesday 12:00
t2t.next('add 7 days').date // -> 2023-05-22 Monday 12:00
t2t.next('add 1 week').date // -> 2023-05-22 Monday 12:00
t2t.next('add 1 month 15:00').date // -> 2023-06-15 Thursday 15:00

🎭 Example with parse for next Occurrences

const t2t = new Text2Time({
    now: new Date('2023-05-15T12:00:00'),
    every: { next: 6 } // how many in next
});

const result = t2t.parse('every 3 months day 5 at 4:04');

result.next.forEach(date => { // Next 6 occurrences:
    // 2023-07-05 Wednesday 04:04
    // 2023-10-05 Thursday 04:04
    // 2024-01-05 Friday 04:04
    // 2024-04-05 Friday 04:04
    // 2024-07-05 Friday 04:04
    // 2024-10-05 Saturday 04:04
});

⏰ Generating Cron Expressions

Use the every method to create cron expressions:

const t2t = new Text2Time({ every:{ seconds:true } });

t2t.every('August At 00:05:10') // -> '10 5 0 * 8 *'
t2t.every('Friday and Monday At 04:05') // -> '0 5 4 * * 1,5'
t2t.every('5 minutes') // -> '0 */5 * * * *'
t2t.every('3 months day 5 at 4:04:01') // -> '1 4 4 5 */3 *'

🎉 Why Text2Time is Awesome

• 🧠 Understands human language
• 🔧 Flexible and customizable
• 🚀 Easy to integrate
• 🎨 Makes working with dates and cron expressions fun!

Give Text2Time a spin and make your date parsing groovy! 🕺💃

📄 License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) Martin Clasen

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