big-time

Big-Time

Reworking of long-timeout that has more features, follows correct semver, and has unit tests. Big-Time is a custom timer class to allow really long values into setTimeout that are larger than Node would normally support (2^31-1).

Usage

var bt = require('big-time');

bt.setTimeout(function () {

    console.log('if you wait for this, it will eventually log');
}, Number.MAX_VALUE);

var timer = bt.setTimeout(function () {

    console.log('shorter');
}, 1000);
bt.clearTimeout(timer);

API

bt.setTimeout(callback, delay, [arg1, arg2, arg3,...])

Creates a new Big-Time timer object and starts the timer where:

• callback - the function to execute after delay milliseconds has passed. callback will be called with arg1, arg2, arg3... if they are passed into setTimeout, exactly like native setTimeout
• delay - the number of milliseconds to wait before executing callback. Must be an integer.
• [arg1, arg2, arg3,...] - optional N number of extra parameters that will be passed back into callback.

bt.clearTimeout(timer)

Clears a running Big-Time object.