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Just a technical question, but is '90daysago' and 'yesterday' a common way of representing time in the node world, or are they just trying to show a generic case?

Also I know there's some turmoil in the Node.js/IO.js fork, what kind of practical implications does this have on projects like these?

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There's at least one other language (PHP, [1]) that accepts these natural language versions of times. It's not quite the same syntax, but I don't think it's necessarily uncommon for some libraries to support these sorts of queries, for lack of a better word. On the flipside, there's definitely a lot of libraries that support displaying times in this way (like moment.js, [2]).

[1] http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php [2] http://momentjs.com/

The GNU versions of find and date accept natural language for times. For find in the --newermt and similar predicates and for date in the the --date option.

Whattttttttt? This is amazing.

That's actually the Google Analytics Reporting API's formal syntax:

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/...

It's pretty handy, since queries are so commonly exactly that: "the last 30 days" or whatever, and it saves the client from having to perform date calculation code to figure out just what that is.

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