ranged-date

ranged-date

Converts a given input to the number of milliseconds since the Unix epoch, provided that it can be parsed and recognized as seconds, milliseconds, or microseconds within a specified range in years from the current date.

Useful for parsing timestampted data from external APIs.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Node.JS version 6.0.0 or above.

Installing

npm i ranged-date

Testing

The following command will test the package for errors.

npm test

Deployment

const rangedDate = require('ranged-date')

Usage

const time   = ~~(Date.now() / 1000) // Test unixtime in seconds
const past   = time - 31536000       // One year prior
const future = time + 31536000       // One year after

console.log(rangedDate(time))               // converted time in ms
console.log(rangedDate(time * 1000))        // converted time in ms
console.log(rangedDate(time * 1000 * 1000)) // converted time in ms
console.log(rangedDate(String(time)))       // converted time in ms
console.log(rangedDate(past))               // false
console.log(rangedDate(past, 2))            // converted time in ms
console.log(rangedDate(future))             // false
console.log(rangedDate(future, null, 2))    // converted time in ms

Documentation

rangedDate ⇒ number | boolean

Returns: number | boolean - Converted ms or false if outside range.

Param	Type	Attributes	Default	Description
data	Date | number | string			Data to attempt to match.
low	number	<optional>	0.5	Years before current date as lower bound.
up	number	<optional>	0.5	Years after current date as upper bound.

Please refer to the API docs for more detailed usage examples. Global functions are documented here.

Versioning

Versioning using SemVer. For available versions, see the tags on this repository.

Author

• Justin Collier - jpcx

License

This project is licensed under the ISC License - see the LICENSE.md file for details