fix-time

Parse messy human date and time strings

Forked from substack/parse-messy-time to add some improvements. Notably...

• Times which make no sense now return null instead of last night 12am ( #1 )
• Times don't have an arbitrary number of milliseconds derived from the momentary Date() they were created ( https://github.com/substack/parse-messy-time/issues/10 )
• Symmetrical delimiters are removed (' " `)

example

parse.js

var fixTime = require('fix-time');
var q = process.argv.slice(2).join(' ');
console.log(fixTime(q));

output:

$ date; cal
Tue Apr 14 12:20:12 PDT 2015
     April 2015       
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  
          1  2  3  4  
 5  6  7  8  9 10 11  
12 13 14 15 16 17 18  
19 20 21 22 23 24 25  
26 27 28 29 30        
                      
$ node parse.js last wednesday
Wed Apr 08 2015 00:00:00 GMT-0700 (PDT)
$ node parse.js 9pm on the 4th of july 1988
Mon Jul 04 1988 21:00:00 GMT-0700 (PDT)
$ node parse.js next friday
Fri Apr 24 2015 00:00:00 GMT-0700 (PDT)
$ node parse.js this friday
Fri Apr 17 2015 00:00:00 GMT-0700 (PDT)
$ node parse.js 6 am tomorrow
Wed Apr 15 2015 06:00:00 GMT-0700 (PDT)
$ node parse.js in 2hrs 50 minutes
Tue Apr 14 2015 15:10:12 GMT-0700 (PDT)
$ node parse.js 2.5 hours ago
Tue Apr 14 2015 09:50:12 GMT-0700 (PDT)

methods

var fixTime = require('fix-time')

var d = fixTime(str, opts)

Parse str, returning a Date instance d or null if no time could be parsed.

• opts.now - interpret str with respect to opts.now, default Date.now()

install

With npm do:

npm install fix-time

license

MIT