duration-parser.js

duration-parser.js is a light weight English time parser.
This module contains a class constructor Time that takes in a time string, and parses it into a usable form.

Install

$ npm install duration-parser.js

Example

const Time = require("duration-parser.js");

let time;
time = new Time("10 hours and 5 seconds");
console.log(time.toString());//10 hours 5 seconds
console.log(time.seconds());//36005
console.log(time.ms());//36005000

time = new Time("3:2:1");
console.log(time.toString());//3 hours 2 minutes 1 seconds

//no need for spaces & scientific notation supported
time = new Time("7mins 5.2e+2s");
console.log(time.ms());//940000

Supported Syntaxes

Postfix notations

milliseconds: millis millisecond milliseconds milli ms ml
seconds:      seconds second sec s snd
minutes:      minutes minute mins m min
hours:        hours hour hrs hur hr h
days:         days day d dys dy
years:        years year yr y yer yar

as well as all of their upper cases and capitalized versions

Colon (:) notation

years:days:hours:minutes:seconds

Everything left of years will be ignored.

Direct number input

Direct number input will be converted to minutes.