Basic Usage - Duration

new Duration(milliseconds);

The milliseconds parameter can be any valid number. Microseconds and Nanoseconds are supported as long as they come after the decimal point (like from performance.now()).

Get the duration since midnight

new Duration(); // Get duration since midnight

This returns the amount of time passed since 00:00:00 that day. Can be used for getting the current time too.

Manually set the duration

Sometimes you do not have the milliseconds ready. But you got the right duration in mind. Fortunately, the Duration class supports the reverse action too.

const myDuration = new Duration(0); // Initialize a 0 duration

myDuration.setHours(10); // Set the hours of the duration to 10

myDuration.setMicroseconds(34344334); // Set the microseconds of the duration to 34,344,334

myDuration.addMinutes(10); // Add 10 minutes to the duration

myDuration.setMinutes(100); // Overwrite the minutes to 100

console.log(myDuration);

/*
    Duration { 
        raw: 42034344.334, 
        d: 0, 
        h: 11, 
        m: 40, 
        s: 34, 
        ms: 344, 
        us: 334, 
        ns: 0 
    };
*/

I don't want a duration class. It's a pain.

Ok. Just use the .json property (a getter to be specific). It'll return a plain ol object.

Get duration from a string

What about when you said it can parse human-readable strings?

Yes.

The fromString static method can construct a duration from such a string. However, it still has limitations (which I haven't found yet).

const myString = "4090 sec 4939  days 7342  hour 2324milliseconds 4344 min"
Duration.fromString(); 
// Duration {d: 5246, h: 13, m: 52, s: 12, ms: 324 }

Can it not read data from strings like HH:MM:SS?

The code has no way of knowing what part of the string is what. Moreover, such a string can be easily passed by a user with the string.split() method.

I don't want a duration class. It's a pain.

Ok. Just use the readString static method. It'll return the same data Duration.json does.