timescale

timescale

timescale: noun | time·scale | time-ˌskāl\ - a period of time whose size can be compared to other periods of time

Inspired by mout/convert.

• Install
• Usage
  • Examples
• Units of measure
• Related projects
• Running tests
• Contributing
• Author
• License

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Install

Install with npm

$ npm i timescale --save

Usage

var timescale = require('timescale');

Use long names:

timescale(7, 'days', 'weeks');
//=> 1

Or abbreviations:

timescale(7, 'd', 'w');
//=> 1

Examples

Converts to seconds by default:

timescale(1, 'minute');
//=> 60

Convert nanoseconds to minutes:

timescale(1000000000, 'ns', 'm');
//=> 0.016666666666666666

Units of measure

You can convert to or from any of the following units of measure:

• ns (or nanosecond, or nanoseconds)
• μs (or microsecond, or microseconds)
• ms (or millisecond, or milliseconds)
• s (or second, or seconds)
• m (or minute, or minutes)
• h (or hour, or hours)
• d (or day, or days)
• w (or week, or weeks)

Related projects

• days: Days of the week. | homepage
• month: Get the name or number of the current month or any month of the year. | homepage
• o-clock: Simple utility for displaying the time in 12-hour clock format. | homepage
• seconds: Get the number of seconds for a minute, hour, day and week. | homepage
• time-stamp: Get a formatted timestamp. | homepage
• week: Get the current week number. | homepage
• weekday: Get the name and number of the current weekday. Or get the name of the… more | homepage

Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

$ npm i -d && npm test

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2015 Jon Schlinkert Released under the MIT license.

This file was generated by verb-cli on October 11, 2015.