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intervalAbutsZoned

intervalAbutsZoned(aStart: string, aEnd: string, bStart: string, bEnd: string): boolean
import { intervalAbutsZoned } from "@northguild/gmt/zoned/interval";

Return true when two zoned intervals are exactly adjacent — one’s end equals the other’s

  • start with zero gap and zero overlap.
  • Uses Temporal.Instant.compare for comparison (via .toInstant()).
  • Returns true when aEnd + 1 nanosecond === bStart or bEnd + 1 nanosecond === aStart.
  • Returns false when intervals overlap, are disjoint with a gap, or are invalid.
  • Returns false on invalid input (wrong type, malformed strings, leap seconds).
  • Accepts mixed calendar systems (E7’s D4-zoned, issue #152): both bare ISO zoned strings and GMT calendar-annotated ones ("5784-06-15T14:30:00-05:00[u-ca=hebrew][America/New_York]"), and the two endpoints need not agree on a calendar. Ordering is calendar-independent — verified that Temporal.Instant carries no calendar field at all and that Instant.compare/ZonedDateTime.compare both return 0 for the same instant expressed in hebrew, islamic-civil, japanese and iso8601.
  • Still rejects Temporal’s own [timeZone][u-ca=...] RFC 9557 ordering, which reads GMT’s calendar-native digits as ISO digits — see regex/calendar-zoned-date-time.ts.
Parameter Type Description
aStart string ISO 8601 zoned datetime string for the first interval start
aEnd string ISO 8601 zoned datetime string for the first interval end
bStart string ISO 8601 zoned datetime string for the second interval start
bEnd string ISO 8601 zoned datetime string for the second interval end

true if intervals are exactly adjacent, or false on invalid input

intervalAbutsZoned("2024-01-01T09:00:00+00:00[UTC]", "2024-06-30T12:00:00+00:00[UTC]", "2024-06-30T12:00:00.000000001+00:00[UTC]", "2024-12-31T17:00:00+00:00[UTC]") // true
intervalAbutsZoned("2024-06-30T12:00:00+00:00[UTC]", "2024-12-31T17:00:00+00:00[UTC]", "2024-01-01T09:00:00+00:00[UTC]", "2024-06-30T12:00:00.000000001+00:00[UTC]") // true
intervalAbutsZoned("2024-01-01T09:00:00+00:00[UTC]", "2024-06-30T12:00:00+00:00[UTC]", "2024-06-30T12:00:01+00:00[UTC]", "2024-12-31T17:00:00+00:00[UTC]") // false (gap)
intervalAbutsZoned("2024-01-01T09:00:00+00:00[UTC]", "2024-06-30T13:00:00+00:00[UTC]", "2024-06-30T12:00:00+00:00[UTC]", "2024-12-31T17:00:00+00:00[UTC]") // false (overlap)
intervalAbutsZoned("invalid", "2024-06-30T12:00:00+00:00[UTC]", "2024-06-30T12:00:00+00:00[UTC]", "2024-12-31T17:00:00+00:00[UTC]") // false

zoned/interval/intervalAbutsZoned.ts