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Consolidate and standardize date time usage / format across the application

ryanlong requested to merge datetime into main

Created by: deepakduggirala

  • All time / date stored in the databases (Postgres or MongoDB) should be in UTC time zone
  • Any time / date data returned in JSON from APIs should be in ISO 8601 format and in UTC time zone.
  • Use browser's local time zone to display dates / times whenever possible. For this use the datetime service.

Usage:

import * as datetime from '@/services/datetime.js'

datetime.date("2023-06-14T01:18:40.501Z") // "Jun 14 2023"
datetime.absolute("2023-06-14T01:18:40.501Z") // "2023-06-13 21:18:40 -04:00"

datetime.fromNow("2023-06-14T01:18:40.501Z") // "2 months ago"
datetime.readableDuration(130*1000) // "2 minutes"
datetime.formatDuration(12000 * 1000) // "3h 20m"

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