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

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5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
web-dev

Research direction

Start by reviewing the requested syntax and examples in issue #634. Define completion around supporting date literals, date arithmetic, date-part access, and localized values such as local today; the issue does not name implementation files or tests, so the relevant parser and runtime entry points must first be located.

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Description

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
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