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Just a technical question, but is '90daysago' and 'yesterday' a common way of representing time in the node world, or are they just trying to show a generic cas

Just a technical question, but is '90daysago' and 'yesterday' a common way of representing time in the node world, or are they just trying to show a generic case? Also I know there's some turmoil in the Node.js/IO.js fork, what kind of practical implications does this have on projects like these?

tobz 12y ago
There's at least one other language (PHP, [1]) that accepts these natural language versions of times. It's not quite the same syntax, but I don't think it's necessarily uncommon for some libraries to support these sorts of queries, for lack of a better word. On the flipside, there's definitely a lot of libraries that support displaying times in this way (like moment.js, [2]). [1] http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php [2] http://momentjs.com/ http://momentjs.com/
- emmelaich 12y ago
  The GNU versions of find and date accept natural language for times. For find in the --newermt and similar predicates and for date in the the --date option.
  - tobz 12y ago
    Whattttttttt? This is amazing.
konklone 12y ago
That's actually the Google Analytics Reporting API's formal syntax: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v3/reference#q_summary https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/... It's pretty handy, since queries are so commonly exactly that: "the last 30 days" or whatever, and it saves the client from having to perform date calculation code to figure out just what that is.