[Feature request] Days since/in X days

[kirillbobyrev]

Thank you for an interesting tool!

I was wondering if the following use-case would be interesting to you: I frequently want to know how much days have passed since a certain date or what would be the date + x days. IIUC, I can already calculate now + x days through 4 pm in x days but I can't do the same for the future and the past. It would certainly be nice to me since that's something I frequently do to calculate some documents processing time, etc.

[yerke]

AFAIK days is not supported. Only hours is. The only working format so far is when "2 days ago in utc". when "now + 2 hours" doesn't work.

[kirillbobyrev]

AFAIK days is not supported. Only hours is. The only working format so far is when "2 days ago in utc". when "now + 2 hours" doesn't work.

It certainly is: https://mitsuhiko.github.io/when/?input=now+in+2+days+in+munich

Also, the README has

2pm in 2 days in new delhi

[mitsuhiko]

It now outputs the difference of the timestamp to the current point in time:

$ when '4pm in sfo'
time: 16:00:00 (in 13 hours and 43 minutes; afternoon)
date: 2021-12-16 (Thursday)
zone: America/Los_Angeles (PST; -0800)
location: San Francisco International Airport (CA; United States)

time: 01:00:00 (in 13 hours and 43 minutes; night)
date: 2021-12-17 (Friday)
zone: Europe/Vienna (CET; +0100)

[mitsuhiko]

On second thought this could just be a line at the end summarizing this. This just also fit will into the JSON array being returned.