Extends the Date native to include more powerful parsing and formatting functions; this is a further extention and depends on Date.js.

• Nicholas Barthelemy - https://svn.nbarthelemy.com/date-js/
• Harald Kirshner - mail [at] digitarald.de ; http://digitarald.de
• Aaron Newton - aaron [dot] newton [at] cnet [dot] com
• Scott Kyle - scott [at] appden.com; http://appden.com

• Online Tutorial/Demo

MIT-style license

Extra Date Parsers: {#Date:parsers}

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In addition to the two default parsers included in Date.js, Date.Extras.js includes some additional parsers.

Date.parse('today') //"Mon Dec 10 2007 00:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)"
Date.parse('tomorrow') //"Tue Dec 11 2007 00:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)"
Date.parse('yesterday') //"Sun Dec 09 2007 00:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)"
Date.parse('next monday') //"Mon Dec 17 2007 00:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)"
Date.parse('last wednesday') //"Wed Dec 05 2007 00:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)"

• Date:parse

Returns the difference between two dates in a compact format.

date.timeDiff([otherDate, joiner]);

1. otherDate - (date) the date to compare to; defaults to the current time.
2. joiner - (string) the string to join the values; defaults to ':'.

var example = new Date();
example.timeDiff(); //0s
example.decrement('minute');
example.timeDiff(); //1m:0s
example.decrement('hour');
example.timeDiff(); //1h:1m:0s
example.increment('hour', 2);
example.timeDiff(); //3h:1m:0s

• (string) the compact representation of the differences in the times.

date.timeDiffInWords([otherDate]);

1. otherDate - (date; optional) an optional date to use for the differential. Defaults to the current date/time.

var example = new Date();
example.timeDiffInWords(); //less than a minute ago
example.decrement('hour');
example.timeDiffInWords(); //about an hour ago
example.increment('hour', 2);
example.timeDiffInWords(); //about an hour from now

• (string) the friendly version of the duration since the date

This method is now an alias for the old Date.timeAgoInWords.

Date.Extras.js includes the following key/values for localization.

• lessThanMinuteAgo - (string) 'less than a minute ago'
• minuteAgo - (string) 'about a minute ago'
• minutesAgo - (string) '{delta} minutes ago' where {delta} is the number of minutes
• hourAgo - (string) 'about an hour ago'
• hoursAgo - (string) 'about {delta} hours ago' where {delta} is the number of hours
• dayAgo - (string) '1 day ago'
• daysAgo - (string) '{delta} days ago' where {delta} is the number of days
• weekAgo - (string) '1 week ago'
• weeksAgo - (string) '{delta} weeks ago' where {delta} is the number of weeks
• monthAgo - (string) '1 month ago'
• monthsAgo - (string) '{delta} months ago' where {delta} is the number of months
• yearAgo - (string) '1 year ago'
• yearsAgo - (string) '{delta} years ago' where {delta} is the number of years
• lessThanMinuteUntil - (string) 'less than a minute from now'
• minuteUntil - (string) 'about a minute from now'
• minutesUntil - (string) '{delta} minutes from now' where {delta} is the number of minutes
• hourUntil - (string) 'about an hour from now'
• hoursUntil - (string) 'about {delta} hours from now' where {delta} is the number of hours
• dayUntil - (string) '1 day from now'
• daysUntil - (string) '{delta} days from now' where {delta} is the number of days
• weekUntil - (string) '1 week from now'
• weeksUntil - (string) '{delta} weeks from now' where {delta} is the number of weeks
• monthUntil - (string) '1 month from now'
• monthsUntil - (string) '{delta} months from now' where {delta} is the number of months
• yearUntil - (string) '1 year from now'
• yearsUntil - (string) '{delta} years from now' where {delta} is the number of years