Temporal.Duration Parser

Parser of ISO 8601 notation for durations

There is a good description of it on TC39's Temporal.Duration Proposal page:

Briefly, the ISO 8601 notation consists of a P character, followed by years, months, weeks, and days, followed by a T character, followed by hours, minutes, and seconds with a decimal part, each with a single-letter suffix that indicates the unit. Any zero components may be omitted.

The parser is not complete and is mainly focused on converting Duration strings into seconds

Setup

Install dependencies

npm install

Usage

import { Duration } from "./internal";

// Parse Duration string
const sample: Duration = Duration.from("P3Y0M4DT12H30M5.1S");
sample.years;      // 3
sample.days;       // 4
sample.seconds;    // 5.1

// Convert to seconds
Duration.from("P3Y0M4DT12H30M5S").to.seconds()  // 93702605
Duration.from("P3DT4H59M").to.seconds()         // 277140
Duration.from("PT0.0021S").to.seconds()         // 0.0021
Duration.from("PT36H").to.seconds()             // 129600
Duration.from("PT36H").to.hours()               // 36
Duration.from("P12W").to.seconds()              // 7257600
Duration.from("P12W").to.weeks()                // 12


// Customize months or year multipliers

import { MULTIPLIER_2SEC } from "./internal";

const yearAsDays: number = MULTIPLIER_2SEC.DAYS * 365;
const oneYear: Duration = Duration.from('P1Y');
oneYear.to.seconds(MULTIPLIER_2SEC.MONTHS, yearAsDays)  // 31536000


const oneMonth: Duration = Duration.from('P1M')
const yearAsWeeks: number = MULTIPLIER_2SEC.WEEKS * 52
// result is close (+- 0.01) to: oneMonth.to.days() / 365
oneMonth.to.years(MULTIPLIER_2SEC.MONTHS, yearAsDays)
// result is close (+- 0.01) to: oneMonth.to.weeks() / 52
oneMonth.to.years(MULTIPLIER_2SEC.MONTHS, yearAsWeeks)

Testing

Run an example script

npm run try

Run tests via Mocha

npm test

Project Structure

project
│   README.md               This file
│   package.json            Project metadata
│   ...
│
└───src                     Source files
│   │   dateParser.ts
│   │   duration.ts
│   │   timeConverter.ts
│
└───tests                   Tests files
    │   testParser.ts
    |   testDuration.ts
    |   testTimeConverter.ts

There are 3 main components: the ones listed in src

Duration

responsible for modeling an ISO_8601 Duration

DateParser

responsible for parsing the string and adding data to the Duration model

TimeConverter

responsible for handling time conversions

Limitations

• I did implement these two formats: P[n]Y[n]M[n]DT[n]H[n]M[n]S and P[n]W, but I didn't implement this last format: P0003-06-04T12:30:05
• Note that when calculating total seconds, there are attributes which are not fixed length: months and years. By default a month is considered 30.437 days and a year 12 months, but can be customized.