"100 days ago" not working

[shichao-an]

"100 days ago" or (>= 100 days ago) results in 1:00 a.m. today.
"99 days" or (<= 99 days ago) is working correctly.

[mirkods]

any update on this?

[gautaz]

Hello,

The issue seems the same whatever time unit is used, i.e.:

> ['now', 'in 30 seconds', 'in 60 seconds', 'in 99 seconds', 'in 100 seconds'].map(d => console.log(date(d)))
2018-03-16T14:44:24.751Z
2018-03-16T14:44:54.751Z
2018-03-16T14:45:24.756Z
2018-03-16T14:46:03.757Z
2018-03-17T00:00:00.757Z

The maintainer has probably not so much time to fix this, a merge request is probably welcome.
@matthewmueller I'll look into it if I have some time.

[gautaz]

This issue seems hard to fix without major modifications.

From my current understanding:

• the library is implemented through the use of a context-free grammar;
• ago or in words basically change the way the tokenizer should (and cannot) extract tokens.

Currently the tokenizer extracts 100 as if it was 1 hour and 00 minutes which results in a replacement of 100 by the token 01:00, this later token is recognized as an hourMinute token.

From my point of view, this should at least result in an error instead of a bad result.
100 days ago is recognized by the library as 1 hour 00 minutes days ago which seems to be an incorrect way of detailing a past event.

Another way to deal with this would be to systematically interpret plain numbers as periods of time and not as points in time but that would break things like today at 705 pm (I would rather use today at 7:05 pm).

[steel-maker]

Hello

As a workaround, you can split the number of days in multiples series of 'in n days' where n is <100.

ex: instead of doing:
date('in 200 days at 7:00pm)
you can do:
date('in 50 days in 50 days in 50 days in 50 days at 7:00pm')
or:
date('in 99 days in 99 days in 2 days at 7:00pm')

I know it's ugly but it work :)

tested in the project frontpage and with google

[danyfedorov]

@matthewmueller Maybe add a note about this to the documentation? Like your numbers must be <100!!!. This is a very unexpected thing.