Does anyone know of a good time interval / range library? (github.com)

submitted 11 months ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/javascript@programming.dev

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In Lemmy, we've removed the TopSixHours / TopXTime in favor of a more fine grained time_range_seconds field. You can see it in action in this PR

The problem is, we need a good UI picker for a time interval: IE things like 5 seconds, 4 days, 7 months, etc.

I've found a million libraries for specific date and time pickers, but not a single one for time intervals.

Does anyone know of any?

Thanks in advance.

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[-] mark@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Probably due to it being a rare use-case. Sounds like you need durations, which are usually expressed as the timeframe between two dates. Perhaps the intervalToDuration function of the date-fns lib could help with this though. There's also formatDuration which may be helpful.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

I ended up figuring it out by using this simple pseudocode.

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