Date Offsets

Espanso's inbuilt date extension is handy, but very limited, particularly because it cannot accept a {{variable}} for its offset: value.

This package contains short Espanso snippets to return dates offset from today, utilising the date-handling facilities of four different scripting languages, partly as an exercise for me in working out how this can be done.

As supplied, typing a trigger, e.g.:

-18d, +2w, -3m, +5y

will present you with a choice box, listing the different scripts, each of which will return the relevant (hopefully the same!) date.

Any of the languages you don't have installed will generate Espanso errors:

• Bash (Linux/macOS) or WSL (Windows)
• Powershell (Windows) or pwsh (Linux/macOS)
• Python
• Javascript

My tests (Linux) indicate that in speed, Bash > Python > Node > PowerShell, but PowerShell is likely to be faster (but not necessarily the fastest) in Windows.

Ultimately, adopt one and delete or comment-out the others you don't need.

See my package timezone-date for timezone offsets.

Stephen Meech (@smeech)