Simple Timesheet Notation

Misc Notes

Random notes on what this Golang package should look like.

Commands

• stnparse - generates a steam of syntax elements encountered and their values as JSON blobs
• stnfilter - filters syntax stream by date rand returning a JSON blobs
• stnreport - report generator that renders the JSON blobs into a useful format (e.e.g plain text summary, comma separated value file)
  • if there are more cells of data than the report requires the right hand cells are concatenated by semi-colons

date lines

Older STN files used a MM/DD/YYYY format. What is the best way to handle those files?

• a dedicated conversion tool?
• add support for multiple date formats?

Todo

• Make sure local timezone is handled consistently in all tools when converting from YYYY-MM-DD to RFC3339.
  • double check reldate needs to be adjusted to local timezone.
• Write middle (e.g. extract middle lines of a file, all but the last N lines of a file, file starting at line N)
• middle - a utility to pull out the middle of a file using line index numbers (negative numbers count form end of file)
  • support negative indexes (relative to end of file) via a masking buffer
  • create a buffer the size of the last index to end of file, stream file through buffer
  • decide line range uses absolute line numbers or start plus next number of lines
• Integrate reldate pkg into stnfilter
• Migrate out ok to its own test module