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m1ke/date-helper
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Quick CLI date helper to avoid needing to check the reference

1.0.2(7y ago)011MITPHP

Since Aug 15Pushed 7y ago1 watchersCompare

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PHP Date Helper
===============

[](#php-date-helper)

Provides quick date formatting key in CLI.

Install with composer, global is ideal:

```
composer global require m1ke/date-helper

```

It's useful to have your composer global bin directory in your `$PATH`; the directory is usually: `$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin/`

If you have it in your `$PATH` you can run this from any command line with `php-date-helper` and it will produce the following output:

```
d/j Date of month (with/out leading zeroes)
D/l Day text (short/long)
S   Suffix st,nd,rd,th
z   Day of year
F/M Month text (long/short)
m/n Month (with/out leading zeroes)
Y/y Year (4/2 digit)
a/A am or pm
h/g Hour (12hr, with/out leading zeroes)
H/G Hour (24hr, with/out leading zeries)
i   Minutes
s   Seconds
u   Microseconds

```

Contributions to add more dates or improve wording/formatting are welcome!

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity5

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

3

Last Release

2829d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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