msign should allow for friendlier expiry date formats

[jclulow]

It would be neat if you could present expiry dates in some friendlier formats, e.g.

msign -E "2d"
msign -E "next wednesday"
msign -E "teatime"

[trentm]

while fun, I find the "next wednesday" etc. open ended format to be so loosy-goosy that it makes it harder. I don't want a game to specify a time. A strict "[m|d|y|h]" format is clear and would definitely be useful.

my 2 cents

[jclulow]

Emotionally charged language aside, there's really no reason I can immediately see that I can't do both.

[trentm]

Sorry, if I came off as grumpy. I didn't mean to be emotional.

[jperkin]

FWIW I agree with trent, 'teatime' has always been wrong in Unix - 4pm is way too late and would interfere with dinner time, it should instead be 3pm. However, that way lies bikesheds.

[jclulow]

I'm working on this:

[cobracmder]

Definitely would like something more friendly (doesn't have to be natural language) but some standard time format like ISO.

2013-07-03T13:15:00.345Z
or
2013-184-13:15:00.345Z (if you want to use julian day instead of month and day of month)

[konobi]

There's always shell foo that could be used...
$(gdate -d 'next tuesday')

[jussisallinen]

Could these changes be merged eventually?

[bahamas10]

https://cr.joyent.us/#/c/4707/

$ ./node_modules/.bin/nodeunit test/msign.test.js 

msign.test.js
✔ msign (no arguments)
✔ msign ~~/stor/foo
✔ msign -e <expires> ~~/stor/foo
✔ msign -E 1h ~~/stor/foo
✔ msign -E 1s ~~/stor/foo (good argument)
✔ msign -E 1m ~~/stor/foo (good argument)
✔ msign -E 1h ~~/stor/foo (good argument)
✔ msign -E 1d ~~/stor/foo (good argument)
✔ msign -E 1w ~~/stor/foo (good argument)
✔ msign -E 1y ~~/stor/foo (good argument)
✔ msign -E foo ~~/stor/foo (bad argument)
✔ msign -E and -e together

OK: 26 assertions (7105ms)

[bahamas10]

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