TimeFormattingLibraryLibrary "TimeFormattingLibrary"
Time formatting functions: formating functions to make timestrings more human readable friendly (for both fixed time and time-elapsed).
Also functions for last and first instance in month of day of week input.
Also a function for identifying bank holiday Mondays.
timeFormatFxn(showDayOfWeek, showDayOfMonth, showMonth, showYear, showHrMin, _time, _timezone)
converts time into readable format
Parameters:
showDayOfWeek (bool) : if you want to show day of week (i.e. Mon, Tues etc)
showDayOfMonth (bool) : if you want to show day number of month with superscript ordinals (i.e. 1ˢᵗ, 2ⁿᵈ, etc)
showMonth (bool) : if you want to show the month (i.e. Jan, Feb, etc)
showYear (bool) : if you want to show the year (i.e. 2023)
showHrMin (bool) : if you want to show time in 24hr clock format
_time (int) : is the unix time (i.e. time or time_close)
_timezone (string) : the user timezone input as string (e.g. "America/New_York", "UTC-5", "GMT+0530")
Returns: time date string
timeElapsedFxn(timespan)
converts timespan into readable format
Parameters:
timespan (int) : is the length of time in milliseconds to be converted into a human readable string
Returns: timespan string (whether it be a for showing 'time-elapsed' or for showing a 'countdown timer')
isFirstXdayofmonth(_dayofweek)
gives bool result for when first occurence in month of the day-of-week input
Parameters:
_dayofweek (int) : (can be integer 1-7 or can be dayofweek variable; i.e. dayofweek.wednesday)
isLastXdayofmonth(_dayofweek)
gives bool result for when last occurence in month of the day-of-week input
Parameters:
_dayofweek (int) : (can be integer 1-7 or can be dayofweek variable; i.e. dayofweek.wednesday)
wasBankHolidayMonday()
gives bool result for if yesterday was a bank holiday monday. Only for use with with request.security() function, see example code below
