expaft

⏱️Tiny Expiration Helper For Node

API

expaft(string)

Expects a string and returns a (then > now) unix timestamp for a later date

expaft.delta(string)

Expects a string and returns the delta between now and a later date in milliseconds

How to use

const expaft = require("expaft")

const laterDate = expaft("16 hrs 200 mins 500 secs")
const deltaNowThen = expaft.delta("16 hrs 200 mins 500 secs 200 ms")

console.log(laterDate)
// => a valid timestamp for a later date

console.log(new Date(laterDate))
// => a valid future date

console.log(deltaNowThen)
// => the time (in milliseconds) between now and the future timestamp

Format

There are two types of keys

• A Type that represents a unit of time (e.g. 'minute', 'hour', 'hours', 'seconds')
• An Amount integer

The order of those keys should be as follows:

'amount type amount type amount type...'

or

'type amount type amount type amount ...'

Available time units & their aliases

All time units are case-insensitive

Milliseconds

• milliseconds
• millisecond
• msecs
• msec
• ms

Seconds

• seconds
• second
• secs
• sec
• s

Minutes

• minutes
• minute
• mins
• min
• m

Hours

• hours
• hour
• hrs
• hr
• h

Days

• days
• day
• d