Merge pull request #775 from borel/master

Get x dates between two dates

2 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/date.js b/lib/date.js
index 081ddab5..5a7626b4 100644
--- a/lib/date.js
+++ b/lib/date.js
@@ -70,6 +70,28 @@ var _Date = function (faker) {
       return newDate;
   };
 
+    /**
+   * betweens
+   *
+   * @method faker.date.between
+   * @param {date} from
+   * @param {date} to
+   */
+  self.betweens = function (from, to, num) {
+    if (typeof num == 'undefined') { num = 3; }
+    var newDates = [];
+    var fromMilli = Date.parse(from);
+    var dateOffset = (Date.parse(to) - fromMilli) / ( num + 1 );
+    var lastDate = from
+    for (var i = 0; i < num; i++) {
+        fromMilli = Date.parse(lastDate);
+        lastDate = new Date(fromMilli + dateOffset)
+        newDates.push(lastDate)
+    }
+    return newDates;
+  };
+
+
   /**
    * recent
    *
diff --git a/test/date.unit.js b/test/date.unit.js
index c3f4eb6c..c4569d54 100644
--- a/test/date.unit.js
+++ b/test/date.unit.js
@@ -115,6 +115,19 @@ describe("date.js", function () {
         });
     });
 
+    describe("betweens()", function () {
+        it("returns an array of 3 dates ( by default ) of sorted randoms dates between the dates given", function () {
+
+            var from = new Date(1990, 5, 7, 9, 11, 0, 0);
+            var to = new Date(2000, 6, 8, 10, 12, 0, 0);
+
+            var dates = faker.date.betweens(from, to );
+            
+            assert.ok(dates[0] > from && dates[0] < to);
+            assert.ok(dates[1] > dates[0] && dates[2] > dates[1]);
+        });
+    });
+
     describe("month()", function () {
         it("returns random value from date.month.wide array by default", function () {
             var month = faker.date.month();