prose-clock

What Time Is It?

We've seen digital clocks. Boring. We've seen analog time pieces. Quaintly geometric. In the world of text-based communication, we expect a timely and prosaic declaration.

An Alternative to Digital or Analog

prose-clock displays the time in the manner of a spoken English colloquial expression. It's aware of the notions of morning, afternoon, and night, thus keeping AM vs. PM unambiguous.

Installation

npm i prose-clock

Usage

1. Import the Module

import { ProseClock } from 'prose-clock';

2. Instantiate with or without language style option

Default is conventional, idiomatic English. Set the style in the consructor to 'curse' or 'regular' (regular is default).

If 'curse' is used, the time is also expressed in English, but the text is occasionally laced with colorful slang.

// Two ways to instantiate
const pc = new ProseClock();
const pc = new ProseClock('curse');

3. Get the time, expressed in text

pc.getTime(); // --> "exactly twenty to eight at night"

Default is current time. However, you can optionally pass in a Date object:

const d = new Date();
d.setHours(12, 45);
pc.getTime(d); // --> "exactly quarter to one in the afternoon"

Notes

In this module's world, granularity is a minute. It would undermine the philosophy of ProseClock to display, for example, "just after five past nine in the morning and twenty-four seconds."

Suggestion

Enhance your app; wrap pc.getTime() in a setInterval() call, configured to run every 20 seconds.

Have fun!

Gerry Gold

August 2023