opening_hours.js

opening_hours tag is used in OpenStreetMap project to describe time ranges when a specific facility (for example, a cafe) is open. As it has pretty complex syntax which require special parsing and additional processing to extract some useful information (e.g. whether a facility is open at specific time, next time it's going to open/close, or a readable set of working hours), this library was written.

Examples of some complex real-life opening_hours values:

Mo,Tu,Th,Fr 12:00-18:00;Sa 12:00-17:00; Th[3] off; Th[-1] off

a library which works from 12:00 to 18:00 on workdays except Wednesday, and from 12:00 to 17:00 on Saturday. It also has breaks on third and last Thursday of each month.

00:00-24:00; Tu-Su 8:30-9:00 off; Tu-Su 14:00-14:30 off; Mo 08:00-13:00 off

around-the-clock shop with some breaks.

Synopsis

var oh = new opening_hours('We 12:00-14:00');

var from = new Date("01 Jan 2012");
var to   = new Date("01 Feb 2012");

// high-level API
{
	var intervals = oh.getOpenIntervals(from, to);
	for (var i in intervals)
		console.log('We are open from ' + intervals[i][0] + ' till ' + intervals[i][1]);

	var duration_hours = oh.getOpenDuration(from, to) / 1000 / 60 / 60;
	console.log('For a given range, we are open for ' + duration_hours + ' hours');
}

// simple API
{
	var state = oh.getState(); // we use current date
	var nextchange = oh.getNextChange();

	console.log('Currently we\'re ' + (state ? 'open' : 'closed'));

	if (typeof nextchange === 'undefined')
		console.log('And we will never ' + (state ? 'close' : 'open'));
	else
		console.log('And we will ' + (state ? 'close' : 'open') + ' on ' + nextchange);
}

// iterator API
{
	var iterator = oh.getIterator(from);

	console.log('Initially, we\'re ' + (iterator.getState() ? 'open' : 'closed'));

	while (iterator.advance(to))
		console.log('Then we ' + (iterator.getState() ? 'open' : 'close') +
			' at ' + iterator.getDate());

	console.log('And till the end we\'re ' + (iterator.getState() ? 'open' : 'closed'));
}

Library API

• var oh = new opening_hours('We 12:00-14:00');

  Constructs opening_hours object, given the opening_hours tag value.

  Throws an error string if the expression is malformed or unsupported.

• var every_week_is_same = oh.isWeekSame();

  Checks whether open intervals are same for every week. Useful for giving a user hint whether time table may change for another week.

High-level API

Here and below, unless noted otherwise, all arguments are expected to be and all output will be in the form of Date objects.

• var intervals = oh.getOpenIntervals(from, to);

  Returns array of open intervals in a given range, in a form of [ [ from1, to1 ], [ from2, to2 ], [ from3, to3 ] ]

  Intervals are cropped with the input range.

• var duration = oh.getOpenDuration(from, to);

  Returns duration for which the facility is open in a given date range, in milliseconds.

Simple API

This API is useful for one-shot checks, but for iteration over intervals you should use the more efficient Iterator API.

• var is_open = oh.getState(date);

  Checks whether the facility is open at the given date. You may omit date to use current date.

• var next_change = oh.getNextChange(date, limit);

  Returns date of next state change. You may omit date to use current date.

  Returns undefined if the next change cannot be found. This may happen if the state won't ever change (e.g. 24/7) or if search goes beyond limit (which is date + ~5 years if omitted).

Iterator API

• var iterator = oh.getIterator(date);

  Constructs an iterator which can go through open/close points, starting at date. You may omit date to use current date.

• var current_date = iterator.getDate();

  Returns current iterator position.

• var is_open = iterator.getState();

  Returns whether the facility is open at the current iterator position in time.

• var had_advanced = iterator.advance(limit);

  Advances an iterator to the next position, but not further that a limit (which is current position + ~5 years if omitted and is used to prevent infinite loop on non-periodic opening_hours, e.g. 24/7), returns whether the iterator was moved.

  For instance, returns false if the iterator would go beyond limit or if there's no next position (24/7 case).

Features

Almost everything from opening_hours definition is supported, as well as some extensions (indicated as EXT: below). For instance, the library is able to process 99.4% of all opening_hours tags from Russia OSM data.

• Opening hours consist of multiple rules separated by semicolon (Mo 10:00-20:00; Tu 12:00-18:00)
• Rule may use off keyword to indicate that the facility is closed at that time (Mo-Fr 10:00-20:00; 12:00-14:00 off)
• Rule consists of multiple date (Mo-Fr, Jan-Feb, week 2-10, Jan 10-Feb 10) and time (12:00-16:00, 12:00-14:00,16:00-18:00) conditions
• If a rule's date condition overlap with previous rule, it overrides (as opposed to extends) the previous rule. E.g. Mo-Fr 10:00-16:00; We 12:00-18:00 means that on Wednesday the facility is open from 12:00 till 18:00, not from 10:00 to 18:00.

Time ranges

• Supports sets of time ranges (10:00-12:00,14:00-16:00)
  • EXT: Correctly supports ranges wrapping over midnight (10:00-26:00, 10:00-02:00)
• Supports 24/7 keyword
  • EXT: 24/7 is handled as a synonym for 00:00-24:00, so Mo-Fr 24/7 (though not really correct) is valid and will be handled correctly
• EXT: Supports omitting time range (Mo-Fr; Tu off)
• EXT: Supports dot as time separator, so 12.00-16.00 is valid (this is used quite widely)
• EXT: Supports space as time interval separator, i.e. Mo 12:00-14:00,16:00-20:00 and Mo 12:00-14:00 16:00-20:00 are the same thing
• Doesn't support open end (10:00+)
• Doesn't support sunrise/sunset keywords (10:00-sunset)

Weekday ranges

• Supports set of weekdays and weekday ranges (Mo-We,Fr)
• Supports weekdays which wrap to the next week (Fr-Mo)
• Supports constrained weekdays (Th[1,2-3], Fr[-1])

Month ranges

• Supports set of months and month ranges (Jan,Mar-Apr)
• Supports months which wrap to the next year (Dec-Jan)

Monthday ranges

• Supports monthday ranges across multiple months (Jan 01-Feb 03 10:00-20:00)
• Supports monthday ranges within single month (Jan 01-26 10:00-20:00), with periods as well Jan 01-29/7 10:00-20:00)
• EXT: Supports multiple monthday ranges separated by a comma (Jan 23-31/3,Feb 1-12,Mar 1)

Week ranges

• Supports week ranges (week 04-07 10:00-20:00)
• Supports periodic weeks (week 2-53/2 10:00-20:00)
• EXT: Supports multiple week ranges (week 1,3-5,7-30/2 10:00-20:00)

Other

• Doesn't support PH/SH keywords yet

Test

Simple node.js based test framework is bundled. You can run it with node test.js or with make test.

Performance

Simple node.js based benchmark is bundled. You can run it with node benchmark.js or with make benchmark.

On author's Intel Core i5-2400 library allows ~20k/sec constructor calls and ~10k/sec openIntervals() calls with one week period. This may further improve in future.

Author

• Dmitry Marakasov amdmi3@amdmi3.ru

Contributors

• Sergey Leschina (demo improvements)
• Charly Koza (package.json)

License

• opening_hours.js is published under the New (2-clause) BSD license