PatrickMcSweeny's solution to Gigasecond on the JavaScript track

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Test suite

Solution

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This exercise has changed since this solution was written.

Given a moment, determine the moment that would be after a gigasecond has passed.

A gigasecond is 10^9 (1,000,000,000) seconds.

Setup

Go through the setup instructions for Javascript to install the necessary dependencies:

https://exercism.io/tracks/javascript/installation

Requirements

Install assignment dependencies:

$ npm install

Making the test suite pass

Execute the tests with:

$ npm test

In the test suites all tests but the first have been skipped.

Once you get a test passing, you can enable the next one by changing xtest to test.

Source

Chapter 9 in Chris Pine's online Learn to Program tutorial. http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=09

Submitting Incomplete Solutions

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gigasecond.spec.js

import { gigasecond } from './gigasecond';

describe('Gigasecond', () => {
  test('tells a gigasecond anniversary since midnight', () => {
    const gs = gigasecond(new Date(Date.UTC(2015, 8, 14)));
    const expectedDate = new Date(Date.UTC(2047, 4, 23, 1, 46, 40));
    expect(gs).toEqual(expectedDate);
  });

  xtest('tells the anniversary is next day when you are born at night', () => {
    const gs = gigasecond(new Date(Date.UTC(2015, 8, 14, 23, 59, 59)));
    const expectedDate = new Date(Date.UTC(2047, 4, 24, 1, 46, 39));
    expect(gs).toEqual(expectedDate);
  });

  xtest('even works before 1970 (beginning of Unix epoch)', () => {
    const gs = gigasecond(new Date(Date.UTC(1959, 6, 19, 5, 13, 45)));
    const expectedDate = new Date(Date.UTC(1991, 2, 27, 7, 0, 25));
    expect(gs).toEqual(expectedDate);
  });
});

const GIGASECOND = 10 ** 9;

export const gigasecond = moment =>
  new Date(moment.getTime() + GIGASECOND * 1000);

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