alt Hacker NewsWorkdays! Think about it, if you set the delay in regular days/seconds the updated dependency can get pulled in on a weekend with only someone maybe on-call.
(Hope your timezones and tzdata correctly identifies Easter bank holiday as non-workdays)
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Why would it get pulled in over the weekend? What automatic deployments are you running if there also isn't a human working to get it out?
Do you run automatic dependency updates over the weekend? Wouldn't you rather do that during fully-staffed hours?
When I worked in Finance our internal Date extension did actually have Workdays that took into account Stock Market and Bank Holidays.
Nah, working hours and make global assumptions of 0900-1230/1330-1730, M-F, and have an overly convoluted way to specify what working ours actually are in the relevant location(s).
And we also need localization. Each country can have their own holidays
> Workdays!
This is javascript, not Java.
In JavaScript something entirely new would be invented, to solve a problem that has long been solved and is documented in 20+ year old books on common design patterns. So we can all copy-paste `{ or: [{ days: 42, months: 2, hours: "DEFAULT", minutes: "IGNORE", seconds: null, timezone: "defer-by-ip" }, { timestamp: 17749453211*1000, unit: "ms"}]` without any clue as to what we are defining.
In Java, a 6000LoC+ ecosystem of classes, abstractions, dependency-injectables and probably a new DSL would be invented so we can all say "over 4 Malaysian workdays"