to-time

to-time

Utility for converting textual time periods to time units

In development

Install

First install the package and save it to package.json using npm:

npm install --save to-time

To require in the browser:

<script src="node_modules/to-time/lib/to-time.min.js"></script>

To require when using NodeJS:

const toTime = require('to-time');

Usage

Converting from textual time period to time units

toTime('1 hour').seconds(); //3600
//same as:
toTime('1h').seconds(); //3600

toTime('1 Year 365 Days 4 Hours').hours(); //17524
//same as:
toTime('1y 365d 4h').hours(); //17524

Useful for usage in methods such as setInterval and setTimeout which consume the intervals in milliseconds

//Instead of using 43200000 milliseconds (equivalent to 12 hours) we can do the following
setInterval(() => {
  //Do something here
}, toTime('12h').ms());

//Instead of using 5400000 milliseconds (equivalent to 1.5 hour)
setTimeout(() => {
  //Do something here
}, toTime.addHours(1.5).ms());

Allowed suffixes (all case insensetive)

• Year, Years, Y
• Week, Weeks, W
• Day, Days, D
• Hour, Hours, H
• Minute, Minutes, M
• Second, Seconds, S
• Millisecond, Milliseconds, MS

Initializing using factory methods

toTime.fromHours(4).addMinutes(30).hours(); //4.5
toTime.fromYears(4).addWeeks(4).days(); //1488

Appenders methods

• addMilliseconds
• addSeconds
• addMinutes
• addHours
• addDays
• addWeeks
• addYears

Getters methods

• milliseconds : Number
• ms (alias to milliseconds)
• minutes : Number
• hours : Number
• days : Number
• weeks : Number
• years : Number
• humanize : String

Contributing

Running tests

• Make sure to write tests, run new & existing tests using:

  npm run test
  

• Check for source code & tests code styling by running eslint:

  npm run lint
  

• If tests are passing and eslint doesn't return any error -> Create pull request

To Do

• Add Karma for testing in browser environment (Currently testing server side using Mocha)

License

MIT