hrsoo

This is a little utility to help parse hours of operation strings.

Overview

A string that contains the hours of operation for a business can come in many different forms. For example:

• M-F 8-5, S 9-12
• 24 hours, 7 days
• Monday 8am EST through 4pm EST
• etc.

This library is an attempt to normalize any of these typical variations and output either a standard JSON data structure that contains all the hours or a specific format.

Usage - Command Line

From the command line enter:

npm install hrsoo -g
hrsoo -i "Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m."

Usage - Node

From the command line enter:

npm install hrsoo --save

Then in your Node.js code use the library like this:

var hrsoo = require('hrsoo');
var formatted = hrsoo.format('Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.');

Usage - Browser

Include dist/hrsoo.min.js in your client build and reference it in a script tag on your page. Then simply:

var formatted = hrsoo.format('Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.');

Limitations / Issues

A couple of things I am still working on:

• Time spanning multiple days - It does not work right now to say 6am Monday through 5pm Friday
• Multiple timezones - Right now this only works if the input string has at most 1 timezone
• Timezone converations - I want to be able to pass in as a param the desired timezone and do a conversion
• Working with military time - Input strings that contain military time won't work yet
• Bad data - Sometimes the data is just bad. This library is not magic...but I am looking into that as well.
• Internationalization - Yeah...haven't gotten there yet. This is US only for now.
• More format options - This should be pretty easy, so let me know if you have a specific format you want.