verbose-time-travel

verbose-time-travel is a lightweight (under 70 lines) date-time processing library with semantic interface and verbose arguments. The library allows to set a base date-time and get a changed Date object based on any free text string. Fluctuation model and calculations are based on simple integer arithmetics.

Examples

Travel to 10 minutes in past from the current moment

import { travel } from 'verbose-time-travel';

console.log('Travel to 10 minutes in past from the current moment');
const newDate: Date = travel('10 min').back();
console.log(newDate);

Travel to 2 weeks and 4 hours in the future

import { travel } from 'verbose-time-travel';

console.log('Travel to 2 weeks and 4 hours in the future');
const newDate: Date = travel('2 weeks 4 h').forward();
console.log(newDate);

Travel to 1 day in the future from start of Unix

import { travelFrom } from 'verbose-time-travel';

console.log('Travel to 1 day in the future from start of Unix');
const newDate: Date = travelFrom(new Date(0)).forward('1 day');
console.log(newDate);

Travel to the future based on free text input

import { travel } from 'verbose-time-travel';

console.log('Travel to the future based on free text input');
// ignores unrecognized terms like '1 time'
const newDate: Date = travel('I want to get 3 days 5 hours and 34 msec to the future at least 1 time').forward();
console.log(newDate);

API Reference

Class VerboseTimeTravel

Constructors:

• constructor(fluctuation: string, fixed: Date | number = Date.now())

  fluctuation - any text containing date/time parts the fixed date should be changed by fixed - either Date object or number (representing number of epoch msec Date.now()) which sets a fixed point in time of an instance of VerboseTimeTravel. By default a current moment (Date.now())

Methods:

• back(fluctuation?: string): Date

  fluctuation - any text containing date/time parts the fixed date should be changed by. Overrides the value that can be passed to constructor. Returns Date object date in the past by fluctuation

• forward(fluctuation?: string): Date

  fluctuation - any text containing date/time parts the fixed date should be changed by. Overrides the value that can be passed to constructor. Returns Date object date in the future by fluctuation

Utils

• travel(fluctuation: string): VerboseTimeTravel

  fluctuation - any text containing date/time parts the fixed date should be changed by. Returns an instance of VerboseTimeTravel with a fluctuation set to the parameter value and fixed point in current moment.

• travelFrom(from: Date): VerboseTimeTravel

  from - Date object representing a fixed point. Returns an instance of VerboseTimeTravel with a fixed point set to the parameter value and 0 fluctuation.

Supported aliases for time parts

NOTE: Due to a very lightweight fluctuation calculation based on simple number arithmetics in the logic for the moment library does not support months and years, those can be replaced by a needed amount of other supported parts. Support for month and year will be added in further versions

• millisecond - ms, millisec, millisecond, milliseconds, msec
• second - s, sec, second, seconds
• minute - m, min, minute, minutes
• hour - h, hour, hours
• day - d, day, days
• week - w, week, weeks