itty-time

Tiny (~500 bytes) time math library for making date handling and TTLs within your APIs beautiful.

Features

• Tiny @ ~500 bytes gzipped total, and tree-shakeable even further.
• Fully typed/TypeScript support
• Use plain text strings to describe time, not seconds/milliseconds
• Get TTLs
• Get future dates
• Divide durations

WARNING - pre-release

This API, specifically around the naming of exposed functions may likely change in the next few days. In the meantime, use/play at your own risk. API changes will be broadcasted here and on Discord.

CHANGELOG - pre-release

• v0.1.x to v0.2.x - renamed: getTTL-->getSeconds, getDatePlus-->datePlus, added optional "from" param to datePlus.

  // old
  getTTL('1 hour')
  // new
  getSeconds('1 hour')
  
  // old
  getDatePlus('1 hour')
  // new
  datePlus('1 hour')
  
  // added functionality
  datePlus('1 hour', optionalDate?: Date)
  

Example

import { getSeconds, divide, datePlus } from 'itty-time' // under 600 bytes

// Easily get TTL in seconds
getSeconds('3 hours') // 10800

// Complicated bits?  No problem.  (Oxford comma optional)
getSeconds('1 day, 4 hours, and 36 minutes') // 102960

// Need an expiration date?
datePlus('5 seconds') // 2022-10-22T23:10:11.824Z
datePlus('1 minutes') // 2022-10-22T23:11:06.824Z
datePlus('2 months') // 2022-12-23T00:11:58.534Z
datePlus('4 years') // 2026-10-22T23:11:58.534Z

// Want to find out how many X are in Y?
divide('1 week').by('days') // 7
divide('2 minutes').by('seconds') // 120
divide('3 days').by('hours') // 72
divide('1 day').by('3 hours') // 8
divide('1 week').by('seconds') // 604800
divide('24 hours').by('minutes') // 1440
divide('3 days').by('hours') // 72
divide('1 day, 30 minutes').by('hours') // 24.5

DISCLAIMER: This is a CONVENIENCE library for making short, readable code.

If you need absolute max performance for iterative work in a single thread, do the operations manually. That's always faster.

Otherwise, you'll probably never feel the difference, but your code sure will! <3

API

getSeconds(duration: string): number

Returns the number of seconds (as you typically need within a TTL) in the duration string.

getSeconds('3 hours') // 10800
getSeconds('1 day, 4 hours, and 36 minutes') // 102960

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datePlus(duration: string, from?: Date): Date

Adds a duration to a date (default is Date.now()), returning the future date.

datePlus('5 seconds') // 2022-10-22T23:10:11.824Z
datePlus('1 minutes') // 2022-10-22T23:11:06.824Z
datePlus('2 months') // 2022-12-23T00:11:58.534Z
datePlus('4 years') // 2026-10-22T23:11:58.534Z

// or from another date
datePlus('1 minutes', datePlus('1 year')) // 2023-10-22T23:11:06.824Z

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divide(duration1: string).by(duration2: string): number

Divides one duration by another, in a nice, readable manner.

divide('1 week').by('days') // 7
divide('2 minutes').by('seconds') // 120
divide('3 days').by('hours') // 72
divide('1 day').by('3 hours') // 8
divide('1 week').by('seconds') // 604800
divide('24 hours').by('minutes') // 1440
divide('3 days').by('hours') // 72
divide('1 day, 30 minutes').by('hours') // 24.5