[Feature Request] Built-in, English-like handling of Dates

[iocouto]

It would be wonderful if Hyperscript could abstract away the complexity that is dealing with dates in Javascript. I would love to be able to do:

set startDate to 2025-01-29
set finishDate to (startDate + 7 days)

In order to be able to handle all kinds of date calculations, we'd need to have words like:

• today
• year, month, day, hour and minutes

That way we'd be able to do:

if the month of birthDate is the month of today then
  if the day of birthDate is the day of today then
    send birthdayGreetings to #welcomeMsg
  end
end

And the complexity of dealing with localised date and time calculations could be abstracted by introducing the keyword local, like this:

set startDate to local today

[MichaelWest22]

https://github.com/MichaelWest22/_hyperscript/blob/convert-command/README.md Just made an example that does part of this with a convert command. It only does date format and timezone conversion though.

[MichaelWest22]

also interesting demo of what could maybe be implemented https://jsfiddle.net/Latent22/1mzkhtyq/1/

[MichaelWest22]

https://jsfiddle.net/Latent22/1mzkhtyq/4/ simplified the date adding syntax and code

dev...MichaelWest22:DateMaths