datr

🕘 DATR

This package will help you generate a date in a programmer-friendly format.
It might be useful for console logging, generating IDs, naming files, etc.

The Idea

Let's treat the Date as a number. It's all about increasing that number.
Unix time does that, but it's not human-readable.
The solution is to start with YMD, add hours to it, and include milliseconds as the smallest unit.
The end result is the format YYYYMMDDHHMMSSms.
Many people use such a format. However, it has never been standardized.

DATR takes two arguments

First, optional argument is precision

The argument sets the precision we want to see in output.

0 - Year, Month, Day (default)
1 - Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute, Second
2 - Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute, Second, Millisecond

Second, optional argument is separator

You can pass a string separator to separate blocks and make the output more readable.
In examples below you can see dots and hyphens.

Module Installation

By using NPM

npm i datr

By using PNPM

pnpm add datr

By using BUN

bun add datr

Module Usage

import datr from 'datr';

console.log(typeof datr());
// string

console.log(datr());
// 20221230

console.log(datr(1));
// 20221230183500

console.log(datr(2));
// 20221230183500001

console.log(datr(2, '.'));
// 20221230.183500.001

console.log(datr(2, '-'));
// 20221230-183500-001

CLI installation

By using NPM

npm i -g datr

By using PNPM

pnpm add -g datr

By using BUN

bun add -g datr

CLI usage

datr
# 20221230

datr 1
# 20221230183500

datr 2
# 20221230183500001

datr 2 .
# 20221230.183500.001

datr 2 -
# 20221230-183500-001

CLI usage without installation

By using NPM

npx datr

By using PNPM

pnpm dlx datr

By using BUN

bunx datr