Add Date functionality: past, future, recent, between

Includes build

1 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/date.js b/lib/date.js
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+var Faker = require('../index');
+
+var date = {
+
+    past: function (years, refDate) {
+        var date = (refDate) ? new Date(Date.parse(refDate)) : new Date();
+
+        var past = date.getTime();
+        past -= Faker.random.number(years) * 365 * 3600 * 1000; // some time from now to N years ago, in milliseconds
+        date.setTime(past)
+
+        return date.toJSON();
+    },
+
+    future: function (years, refDate) {
+        var date = (refDate) ? new Date(Date.parse(refDate)) : new Date();
+        var future = date.getTime();
+        future += Faker.random.number(years) * 365 * 3600 * 1000; // some time from now to N years later, in milliseconds
+        date.setTime(future)
+
+        return date.toJSON();
+    },
+    
+    between: function(from, to) {
+        var fromMilli = Date.parse(from);
+        var dateOffset = Faker.random.number(Date.parse(to) - fromMilli);
+        
+        var newDate = new Date(fromMilli + dateOffset);
+        
+        return newDate.toJSON();
+    },
+
+    recent: function (days) {
+        var date = new Date();
+        var future = date.getTime();
+        future -= Faker.random.number(days) * 3600 * 1000; // some time from now to N days ago, in milliseconds
+        date.setTime(future)
+
+        return date.toJSON();
+    }
+};
+module.exports = date;