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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Desc: Template to indicate time duration in ISO-8601 format
+
+yell() { echo "$0: $*" >&2; } # Yell, Die, Try Three-Fingered Claw technique; # Ref/Attrib: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25515370
+die() { yell "$*"; exit 111; }
+try() { "$@" || die "cannot $*"; }
+timeDuration(){
+ # Desc: Output approximate time duration string before given time (default:current date)
+ # Ref/Attrib: ISO-8601:2004(E), §4.4.4.2 Representations of time intervals by duration and context information
+ # Note: "1 month" ("P1M") is assumed to be "30 days" (see ISO-8601:2004(E), §2.2.1.2)
+ # Usage: timeDuration [arg1] ([arg2])
+ # Input: arg1: seconds as base 10 integer >= 0 (ex: 3601)
+ # arg2: precision level (optional; default=2)
+ # Output: stdout: ISO-8601 duration string (ex: "P1H1S", "P2Y10M15DT10H30M20S")
+ # Example: 'timeDuration 111111 3' yields 'P1DT6H51M'
+ # Depends: date 8 (gnucoreutils)
+ local returnState fullHours fullMinutes fullSeconds;
+ ARG1="$1";
+ ARG2="$2";
+ precision=2; # set default precision
+ returnState="true"; # set default return state
+
+ # Check that between one and two arguments is supplied
+ if ! { [[ $# -ge 1 ]] && [[ $# -le 2 ]]; }; then
+ yell "ERROR:Invalid number of arguments:$# . Exiting.";
+ returnState="ERROR_INPUT"; fi
+
+ # Check that arg1 provided
+ if [[ $# -ge 1 ]]; then
+ # Check that arg1 is a positive integer
+ if [[ "$ARG1" =~ ^[[:digit:]]+$ ]]; then
+ arg1Valid="true";
+ else
+ yell "ERROR:ARG1 not a digit.";
+ returnState="ERROR_INPUT";
+ arg1Valid="false";
+ fi
+ else
+ yell "ERROR:No argument provided. Exiting.";
+ exit 1;
+ fi
+
+ # Consider whether arg2 was provided
+ if [[ $# -eq 2 ]]; then
+ # Check that the second arg is a positive integer
+ if [[ "$ARG2" =~ ^[[:digit:]]+$ ]] && [[ "ARG2" -gt 0 ]]; then
+ arg2Valid="true";
+ precision="$ARG2";
+ else
+ yell "ERROR:ARG2 not a positive integer. (is $ARG2 ). Leaving early.";
+ returnState="ERROR_INPUT";
+ arg2Valid="false";
+ fi;
+ else
+ arg2Valid="false";
+ fi;
+
+ remainder="$ARG1" ; # seconds
+ ## Calculate full years Y, update remainder
+ fullYears=$(( remainder / (365*24*60*60) ));
+ remainder=$(( remainder - (fullYears*365*24*60*60) ));
+ #yell "DEBUG:post-Y remainder:$remainder"
+ #yell "DEBUG:fullYears:$fullYears"
+ ## Calculate full months M, update remainder
+ fullMonths=$(( remainder / (30*24*60*60) ));
+ remainder=$(( remainder - (fullMonths*30*24*60*60) ));
+ #yell "DEBUG:post-m remainder:$remainder"
+ #yell "DEBUG:fullMonths:$fullMonths"
+ ## Calculate full days D, update remainder
+ fullDays=$(( remainder / (24*60*60) ));
+ remainder=$(( remainder - (fullDays*24*60*60) ));
+ #yell "DEBUG:post-d remainder:$remainder"
+ #yell "DEBUG:fullMonths:$fullDays"
+ ## Calculate full hours H, update remainder
+ fullHours=$(( remainder / (60*60) ));
+ remainder=$(( remainder - (fullHours*60*60) ));
+ #yell "DEBUG:post-H remainder:$remainder"
+ #yell "DEBUG:fullHours:$fullHours"
+ ## Calculate full minutes M, update remainder
+ fullMinutes=$(( remainder / (60) ));
+ remainder=$(( remainder - (fullMinutes*60) ));
+ #yell "DEBUG:post-M remainder:$remainder"
+ #yell "DEBUG:fullMinutes:$fullMinutes"
+ ## Calculate full seconds S, update remainder
+ fullSeconds=$(( remainder / (1) ));
+ remainder=$(( remainder - (remainder*1) ));
+ #yell "DEBUG:post-S remainder:$remainder"
+ #yell "DEBUG:fullSeconds:$fullSeconds"
+ ## Check which fields filled
+ if [[ $fullYears -gt 0 ]]; then hasYears="true"; else hasYears="false"; fi
+ if [[ $fullMonths -gt 0 ]]; then hasMonths="true"; else hasMonths="false"; fi
+ if [[ $fullDays -gt 0 ]]; then hasDays="true"; else hasDays="false"; fi
+ if [[ $fullHours -gt 0 ]]; then hasHours="true"; else hasHours="false"; fi
+ if [[ $fullMinutes -gt 0 ]]; then hasMinutes="true"; else hasMinutes="false"; fi
+ if [[ $fullSeconds -gt 0 ]]; then hasSeconds="true"; else hasSeconds="false"; fi
+
+ ## Determine which fields to display (see ISO-8601:2004 §4.4.3.2)
+ witherPrecision="false"
+
+ ### Years
+ if $hasYears && [[ $precision -gt 0 ]]; then
+ displayYears="true";
+ witherPrecision="true";
+ else
+ displayYears="false";
+ fi;
+ if $witherPrecision; then ((precision--)); fi;
+
+ ### Months
+ if $hasMonths && [[ $precision -gt 0 ]]; then
+ displayMonths="true";
+ witherPrecision="true";
+ else
+ displayMonths="false";
+ fi;
+ if $witherPrecision && [[ $precision -gt 0 ]]; then
+ displayMonths="true";
+ fi;
+ if $witherPrecision; then ((precision--)); fi;
+
+ ### Days
+ if $hasDays && [[ $precision -gt 0 ]]; then
+ displayDays="true";
+ witherPrecision="true";
+ else
+ displayDays="false";
+ fi;
+ if $witherPrecision && [[ $precision -gt 0 ]]; then
+ displayDays="true";
+ fi;
+ if $witherPrecision; then ((precision--)); fi;
+
+ ### Hours
+ if $hasHours && [[ $precision -gt 0 ]]; then
+ displayHours="true";
+ witherPrecision="true";
+ else
+ displayHours="false";
+ fi;
+ if $witherPrecision && [[ $precision -gt 0 ]]; then
+ displayHours="true";
+ fi;
+ if $witherPrecision; then ((precision--)); fi;
+
+ ### Minutes
+ if $hasMinutes && [[ $precision -gt 0 ]]; then
+ displayMinutes="true";
+ witherPrecision="true";
+ else
+ displayMinutes="false";
+ fi;
+ if $witherPrecision && [[ $precision -gt 0 ]]; then
+ displayMinutes="true";
+ fi;
+ if $witherPrecision; then ((precision--)); fi;
+
+ ### Seconds
+
+ if $hasSeconds && [[ $precision -gt 0 ]]; then
+ displaySeconds="true";
+ witherPrecision="true";
+ else
+ displaySeconds="false";
+ fi;
+ if $witherPrecision && [[ $precision -gt 0 ]]; then
+ displaySeconds="true";
+ fi;
+ if $witherPrecision; then ((precision--)); fi;
+
+
+
+ ## Determine whether or not the "T" separator is needed to separate date and time elements
+ # if ( $displayYears || $displayMonths || $displayDays ) && ( $displayHours || $displayMinutes || $displaySeconds); then
+ if ( $displayHours || $displayMinutes || $displaySeconds); then
+ displayDateTime="true"; else displayDateTime="false"; fi
+
+ ## Construct duration output string
+ OUTPUT="P"
+ if $displayYears; then
+ OUTPUT=$OUTPUT$fullYears"Y"; fi
+ if $displayMonths; then
+ OUTPUT=$OUTPUT$fullMonths"M"; fi
+ if $displayDays; then
+ OUTPUT=$OUTPUT$fullDays"D"; fi
+ if $displayDateTime; then
+ OUTPUT=$OUTPUT"T"; fi
+ if $displayHours; then
+ OUTPUT=$OUTPUT$fullHours"H"; fi
+ if $displayMinutes; then
+ OUTPUT=$OUTPUT$fullMinutes"M"; fi
+ if $displaySeconds; then
+ OUTPUT=$OUTPUT$fullSeconds"S"; fi
+
+ ## Output duration string to stdout
+ if [[ "$returnState" = "true" ]]; then echo "$OUTPUT"; fi
+
+
+ # if [[ "$OPTION_DATEPARSE" = "true" ]]; then
+ # echo "asdf";
+ # # Get current time for parsing year/month/day idiosyncrasies
+ # DATE_NOW="$(TZ=":UTC" date --iso-8601 | tr -d '[:punct:]')"; # Produces YYYYMMDD
+ # #TIME_CURRENT="$(date --iso-8601=seconds)" ; # Produce `date`-parsable current timestamp with resolution of 1 second.
+ # # Get date : Given YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+ZZ, outputs YYYYMMDD (also supports YYYYYY)
+ # DATE_AGO="$(TZ="UTC" date -d '$ARG1 seconds ago' --iso-8601=seconds | tr -d '[:punct:]' | cut -dT -f1)";
+ # # Get day
+ # DAY_AGO=${DATE_AGO: -2}
+ # # Get month
+ # MONTH_AGO=${DATE_AGO: -4: -2}
+ # # Get year
+ # YEAR_AGO=${YEAR: 0: -4}
+
+ # fi
+
+ #===Determine function return code===
+ if [ "$returnState" = "true" ]; then
+ return 0;
+ else
+ echo "$returnState" 1>&2;
+ return 1;
+ fi
+
+} # Get duration (ex: PT10M4S )
+
+#==BEGIN sample code==
+echo "Precision 6 duration:$(timeDuration "$(date +%s)" 6)"
+echo "Precision 5 duration:$(timeDuration "$(date +%s)" 5)"
+echo "Precision 4 duration:$(timeDuration "$(date +%s)" 4)"
+echo "Precision 3 duration:$(timeDuration "$(date +%s)" 3)"
+echo "Precision 2 duration:$(timeDuration "$(date +%s)" 2)"
+echo "Precision 1 duration:$(timeDuration "$(date +%s)" 1)"
+echo "Precision 6 duration:$(timeDuration $((60+60*60+60*60*24+60*60*24*30+60*60*24*365 - (60+60*60+60*60*24+60*60*24*30) )) 6)"
+timeDuration "$@"
+#==END sample code==
+
+# Author: Steven Baltakatei Sandoval
+# License: GPLv3+