days-since 1.0.0

an Abbot package for Microsoft Teams by Serious Business

Measures the number of days that have elapsed since some event occurred.

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module.exports.DaysSince = (async () => {

  // A nice solution to date diffing from StackOverflow
  // source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11252167
  
  function treatAsUTC(date) {
    var result = new Date(date);
    result.setMinutes(result.getMinutes() - result.getTimezoneOffset());
    return result;
  }

  function daysBetween(startDate, endDate) {
      var millisecondsPerDay = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
      return (treatAsUTC(endDate) - treatAsUTC(startDate)) / millisecondsPerDay;
  }

  // end StackOverflow code

  const key = bot.tokenizedArguments[0]; // the key for storing what we're tracking
  let newRecord = false; // false if this is not a new record for the number of days
  
  // Allow users to reset the counter
  if (bot.tokenizedArguments[1] == "reset") {
    await bot.brain.delete(key);
    await bot.brain.write(key, new Date());
    
    await bot.reply("Shucks, just reset the counter for " + key + "... Better luck next time!");
  } else {
    // Fetch the last time the thing occurred
    let lastDate = await bot.brain.get(key);
    if (!lastDate) {
      lastDate = new Date();
      await bot.brain.write(key, lastDate);
    }
  
    let daysElapsed = daysBetween(lastDate, new Date());
  
    let longestSpan = await bot.brain.get(key + "_span");
    if (!longestSpan) {
      longestSpan = 0;
      await bot.brain.write(key + "_span", 0);
    }

    if (longestSpan < daysElapsed) {
      await bot.brain.write(key + "_span", daysElapsed);
      newRecord = true;
    }

    let response = key + " last happened on " + lastDate.toString() + " (" + daysElapsed + " days";
    if (newRecord) { response += "... a new record!"; }
    response += ")";

    await bot.reply(response);
    await bot.reply("The record is " + longestSpan + " days.");
  }
  


})();

Version	Created	Author	Release Notes	Installs
1.0.0	3/18/2022	Paul	First release	0

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Last updated: Friday, 18 March 2022 00:44
Installs: 0 total installs
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT License

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