Answer “how old are you” and “age” queries

[taboege]

The script creation date is obtained from the git history. Resolves #361.

[taboege]

I'm not completely satisfied with how the question is answered yet in that a creation date is not a good answer for an age query. I'd like to have something like "$y years and $d days ago", but I got lost a little in (leap) date arithmetic. Sadly using a Duration will be inaccurate as a difference of 366 days might be "1 year" or "1 year and 1 day", depending on what the two dates were...

But I want to ask first: Do you agree that an answer formatted like above is more desirable than the creation timestamp?

[AlexDaniel]

There's a time-left sub, maybe it can be extended/repurposed to talk about dates in the past? Yes, I think “X years, etc.” is a better format. Also if it happens that it prints “…, Z seconds” too, I totally don't mind 😂

Sadly using a Duration will be inaccurate

First I was a bit confused, now I understand that you're totally right… hmm… Is there any module in the ecosystem? Generally I don't want any more dependencies in whateverable, there are already too many, but I can do an exception… :)

[AlexDaniel]

Why is this needed? Bots automatically gist uncaught exceptions, there's no need. You can of course grumble ‘something went wrong’ but I don't see any good reason. In this case exception is totally fine, although I'm a bit confused as to when it'll trigger given that ‘no birthday data available’ message is there? Maybe wrap the whole thing in a try/catch and just output ‘no birthday data available no matter what goes wrong? The feature is more like an easter egg, so I'm not too concerned about debugging.

Also, change it to ‘I don't remember’, I think that's funnier.

[AlexDaniel]

I used to write run like this, but nowadays I'd do run :out, <git log --follow --date-order --format=%aI>, $*PROGRAM.relative.

[AlexDaniel]

Any updates? :) I'd love to merge this.