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intervalXorAllZoned

intervalXorAllZoned(intervals: { start: string; end: string; }[]): { start: string; end: string; }[]
import { intervalXorAllZoned } from "@northguild/gmt/zoned/interval";

Return the symmetric difference across a list of zoned intervals — the set of instants

  • covered by an odd number of the input intervals.
  • List-form generalization of intervalXorZoned, which is pairwise only.
  • Implemented as a coverage sweep over instants: each interval contributes a +1 at its start instant and a -1 one nanosecond after its end instant; the result is every maximal run where the running coverage count is odd. For two intervals this reduces to exactly intervalXorZoned’s pairwise result.
  • Output boundaries carry the time zone of whichever input interval contributed them.
  • Order of the input list does not matter; the result is sorted by start instant.
  • Returns [] for an empty list, and [] when every instant is covered an even number of times (e.g. two identical intervals cancel out).
  • Returns [] when intervals is not an array, when any element is not a { start, end } record of valid ISO ZonedDateTime strings, or when any element has start > end or a leap-second string.
  • Accepts GMT calendar-annotated zoned strings (as produced by convertZonedToCalendar) as well as bare ISO ones — E7 (issue #152) — but rejects a mismatched set: every endpoint in the list must name the same calendar system (E7’s D4-zoned). This function returns values the caller reads back as datetimes, and an array whose elements carried different calendar tags would be unreadable as a set. A mismatch returns [].
  • Output boundaries are re-derived in the resolved calendar via formatZonedInCalendar, never copied from an input string (E7’s D7-zoned).
Parameter Type Description
intervals { start: string; end: string; }[] array of { start, end } records

array of { start, end } records covered an odd number of times, or [] on invalid input

intervalXorAllZoned([{ start: "2024-01-01T00:00:00+00:00[UTC]", end: "2024-01-10T00:00:00+00:00[UTC]" }, { start: "2024-01-05T00:00:00+00:00[UTC]", end: "2024-01-15T00:00:00+00:00[UTC]" }]) // [{ start: "2024-01-01T00:00:00+00:00[UTC]", end: "2024-01-04T23:59:59.999999999+00:00[UTC]" }, { start: "2024-01-10T00:00:00.000000001+00:00[UTC]", end: "2024-01-15T00:00:00+00:00[UTC]" }]
intervalXorAllZoned([]) // []

zoned/interval/intervalXorAllZoned.ts