I want to display some amount of seconds that correspond to dime duration rather than regular date in some human-readable form. say sth like:
[ 30300, 120300, 296700, 31922700, 63458700]and what i would like to get
["0d, 08:25","1d, 09:25","3d, 10:25","1y 4d, 11:25","2y 4d, 11:25"]seems there is no "easy" (built in) way to get this. found some lib that does almost what i need:
https://github.com/fearphage/jq-duration
but it has a fixed output format, which doesnt quite fit my needs.
i was able to achieve what i want with strftime, basically this is "almost a date", right? i can get hours and minutes, i can get "day # of year" (&j), i can get year (%Y). but there are some caveats: by default year starts at 1970, and according to the doc: day of year is 1-366.
what if i just subtract 1970 from "years" to get years counting from 0, and do same for "days" (subtract one) ?
so we would end up with by below jq filter:
gmtime | (.[0] -= 1970) | (.[7] -= 1) | strftime ("%Yy %jd, %H:%M") | ltrimstr("0y ") | sub("0+(?<ds>[0-9]+d)";"\(.ds)")the only thing left is to ltrim excessive zeros (%j produces a fixed width (3chars))
kind of hacky, but gets the job done - what do you think?
https://jqplay.org/s/JGUUnI8q1zK
maybe sbd has a better way to approach such problem?
btw - i checked also on bigger values (exceeding 4 years) , and it seems that "my way" returns the same as javascript moment.js+https://github.com/jsmreese/moment-duration-format lib