Today

The industry-standard chronological state management solution for distributed enterprise applications.

Overview

In the fast-paced world of modern software development, determining "what day is it" is a non-trivial problem often plagued by timezone inconsistencies, clock skew, and non-deterministic runtime evaluations.

Today solves this by providing a single, immutable source of truth for the current date. It leverages a sophisticated Cron-Based Continuous Temporal Integration (CB-CTI) pipeline to ensure that your application's concept of "today" is synchronized globally, regardless of server location or client configuration.

Key Features

• 🚀 Zero-Latency Temporal Resolution: By pre-computing the date during the build phase, today eliminates the runtime overhead associated with the instantiation of Date objects.
• 🛡️ Deterministic State: The date is hard-coded into the package distribution. This guarantees that every instance of your application running a specific version of today agrees on exactly what day it is.
• 🔒 Immutable Audit Trail: Every date change is cryptographically signed and stored in the version control history, providing full audibility for compliance-heavy industries (FinTech, HealthTech).
• 📦 SemVer-Compatible Chronology: We utilize a proprietary versioning strategy (YYYY.M.D) that aligns software lifecycle management directly with the Gregorian calendar.
• ☁️ Cloud Agnostic: Runs everywhere. AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Run, or your on-premise Kubernetes cluster. today is ubiquitous.

Installation

Integrate today into your enterprise ecosystem via NPM:

npm install @kayooliveira/today-js

Note: Due to high demand/namespace collision, ensure you are installing the correct package or alias it in your private registry.

Usage

Basic Implementation

import today from '@kayooliveira/today-js';

// Synchronous, non-blocking retrieval of the temporal state
const currentDate = today();

console.log(`System Status: Operational. Current Temporal Coordinate: ${currentDate}`);

Enterprise Pattern (Dependency Injection)

class TimeService {
  constructor(dateProvider) {
    this.dateProvider = dateProvider;
  }

  getAuditLogTimestamp() {
    // Guaranteed consistency across microservices
    return this.dateProvider();
  }
}

const service = new TimeService(require('today'));

Architecture

The today ecosystem is built on a robust Event-Driven Architecture:

1. Temporal Trigger: A UTC-aligned chronometer fires a signal at 00:00:00Z.
2. State Rehydration: The Automated Maintainer Bot wakes up, calculates the new temporal vector, and injects it into the data.json persistence layer.
3. Atomic Release: A new patch version is synthesized, tagged, and published to the global registry immediately.

graph LR
    A[Time Itself] -->|Trigger| B(GitHub Actions)
    B -->|Compute| C{Is it tomorrow?}
    C -->|Yes| D[Update State]
    D -->|Commit| E[Git Repository]
    E -->|Publish| F[NPM Registry]
    F -->|Depend| G[Your Production App]

Security & Compliance

• No Runtime Dependencies: Reduces attack surface area to near zero.
• Static Analysis Friendly: Since the date is a string literal, it can be easily parsed by security auditing tools.

Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community. Please ensure all Pull Requests are aligned with linear time progression. Backwards time travel PRs will be rejected.

License

ISC © 2025 - Present.