When given a Date description, it returns a Date object. No need to know exact date format.
Currently supporting languages:
- English
- Russian
- Arabic
- Persian
- Turkish
- Greek
- Spanish
- French
- Portuguese
$ npm install its-a-date --save
var itsadate = require('its-a-date');
// Mon May 02 2016 05:48:00 GMT+0300 (Jerusalem Daylight Time)`
itsadate.parse("May 2 05:48:29 2016");
// Wed Apr 11 1990 00:45:00 GMT+0300 (Jerusalem Daylight Time)
itsadate.parse("3 months after 11/01/1990");
// Sat Aug 26 1989 02:43:00 GMT+0300 (Jerusalem Daylight Time)
itsadate.parse("10000 days before 11/01/2017")
// Fri Aug 19 2016 11:47:00 GMT+0300 (Jerusalem Daylight Time)
itsadate.parse("11:47");
// Tue Mar 27 2012 14:05:00 GMT+0200 (Jerusalem Standard Time)
itsadate.parse("27.3.2012");
// Tue Mar 27 2012 12:00:00 GMT+0200 (Jerusalem Standard Time)
itsadate.parse("27/3/2012 12:00");
// Thu Aug 18 2016 14:05:00 GMT+0300 (Jerusalem Daylight Time)
itsadate.parse("yesterday");
// Thu Aug 18 2016 16:20:00 GMT+0300 (Jerusalem Daylight Time)
itsadate.parse("yesterday at 16:20");
//Fri Aug 19 2011 14:05:00 GMT+0300 (Jerusalem Daylight Time)
itsadate.parse("5 years ago");
// Fri Aug 19 2011 15:44:00 GMT+0300 (Jerusalem Daylight Time)
itsadate.parse("5 years ago at 15:44");
When its-a-date doesn't know what date it is, it will return undefined. However many times it surprises.
// Sun Jan 01 1984 14:05:00 GMT+0200 (Jerusalem Standard Time)
itsadate.parse('it was on the 1st of January, ' +
'the dark cold winter of 1984');
// undefined
itsadate.parse("pikachu");
Use settings to alter the format expected
// Hint its-a-date to prefer mm/dd/yyyy over dd/mm/yyyy
itsadate.settings({'day_before_month':false});
// Thu Nov 01 1990 01:55:00 GMT+0200 (Jerusalem Standard Time)
itsadate.parse("11/1/1990");
// Don't allow its-a-date to guess any other format than specified (day MUST be before month or vise-versa)
itsadate.settings({'strict':true});
You can prevent changing the settings globaly, by delivering it as a second parameter
// November 3rd 2014
itsadate.parse("11-3-2014",{'day_before_month':false});
// Doesn't use prev settings March 11th 2014
itsadate.parse("11-3-2014");
Restore settings to default
// Restore setting back to default (day_before_month=true)
itsadate.settings().restore();
// Thu Jan 11 1990 01:55:00 GMT+0200 (Jerusalem Standard Time)
itsadate.parse("11/1/1990");
Alter GMT to overcome time difference
// Set GMT+5.5, Mumbai India
itsadate.settings({gmt: 5.5});
itsadate.parse("now");
Hit brag() to console out examples of any token implemented
itsadate.brag();
Hit settings() to get settings object with configutations you can alter. descriptions included.
itsadate.settings();
When date description has inner conflicts it resolves to undefined
// undefined
itsadate.parse('1st of november 02/03/2000')
- Allows a user to type a date more naturally in a web page or social media.
- Allows crawlers to parse relative dates easily.
A micro-compiler is implemented. It parses date part tokens & interpret them as modifications on the perceived date.
- Custom token insertion
- More Languages perhaps