timebucket
Group timestamps into "buckets" by applying a granularity to a discrete value
A timebucket is a type of time domain which combines a size identifier (granularity) with a discrete value, and can be stored as a compact string.
Timebuckets are useful for grouping timestamps together using a particular granularity (such as groups of 30 minutes), as an aid for graphing or map/reduce-ing time-series data.
Also, timebuckets can serve as a neutral format between which UNIX timestamps (seconds before or after 1970) and millisecond timestamps (as used in JavaScript) can be converted, and stored in a complete way (with granularity attached).
Anatomy of a timebucket
A timebucket consists of:
- a size spec (string) which consists of:
- (optional) an unsigned multiplier (default:
1
) - a granularity identifier, i.e.
s
for seconds - a signed value, i.e. number of seconds, after or before epoch year (1970)
Format examples
8h-491
- time (within 8 hours) of first moonwalk (1969-07-21 02:56
UTC)y43
- the year 2013
API
Construction
The timebucket
module exports a factory function. It supports the
following argument combinations:
timebucket()
- build timebucket with millisecond granularity applied to current datetimebucket(size)
- build from specific size (string identifier, see list below) applied to current datetimebucket(milliseconds)
- build from milliseconds since 1970timebucket(size, value)
- build from specific size and valuetimebucket(date)
- build from date object with millisecond granularitytimebucket(str)
- build from string representation
Resizing
To resize a bucket, call resize(newSize)
:
console;// '30m753360'
Conversion
Conversion methods:
toString()
- convert to string representationtoJSON()
- same astoString()
toMilliseconds()
- convert to millisecond UNIX time offsettoDate()
- convert to Date object
API examples
var timebucket = ; // defaults to current milliseconds after unix epochconsole;// 'ms1369656669680' // default size (milliseconds) and valueconsole;// 'ms1369601120380' // specific size (seconds) and valueconsole;// 's1369601125' // resize to yearconsole;// 'y43' // use current time, specific sizeconsole;// '30m760920' // create timebucket from current seconds after unix epoch, and add 5console;// 's1369656674' // from date objectconsole;// 'ms1369656669686' // from string representationconsole;// 'y43' // access granularity and value as propertiesvar t = ;console;// 1 'ms' 1369656669686 // resizeconsole;// '30m753360'
Granularity identifiers
ms
- millisecondss
- secondsm
- minutesh
- hoursd
- daysw
- weeksM
- monthsy
- years
Integer storage
Timebuckets also have a 64-bit integer representation which contains granularity metadata, while maintaining sortability with buckets of the same granularity.
var timebucket = ;var num = ;// toNumber() returns a 64-bit integer representation as a Numberconsole;// -49133var bucket = timebucket;// fromNumber() takes the result of toNumber(), and returns a timebucket instance:console;// 8h-491
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