temporal

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Resolve ANY named time window — today, yesterday, thisWeek, lastWeek, last7Days, last30Days, last90Days, thisMonth, lastMonth, thisQuarter, lastQuarter, thisYear, lastYear, last12Months — or an arbitrary range (lastNdays / lastNweeks / lastNmonths) to a concrete ISO date range relative to your run time. Read-only: no writes, no network. Use whenever a task is time-scoped and you need exact start/end dates without computing them by hand.

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/temporal — concrete date ranges, relative to now

This is the single source of truth for "what dates does mean right now?". It resolves named windows to concrete ISO date ranges relative to your run time (new Date() at the moment you invoke it), so you never re-derive dates manually. It only reads the clock and prints — no files written, no network.

Run it

# all windows at once (a quick temporal-context dump)
node "$AGENT_DIR/.claude/skills/temporal/when.mjs"

# one or several specific windows
node "$AGENT_DIR/.claude/skills/temporal/when.mjs" last30Days thisQuarter

# JSON only (machine-readable), or list the supported keywords
node "$AGENT_DIR/.claude/skills/temporal/when.mjs" --json last7Days
node "$AGENT_DIR/.claude/skills/temporal/when.mjs" --list

If $AGENT_DIR is somehow unset, the script also lives under ~/.claude/skills/temporal/when.mjs.

Windows

Keyword	Meaning
`today` / `yesterday`	the single civil day
`thisWeek` / `lastWeek`	ISO week (Mon-start); this = Mon→today, last = the full prior Mon→Sun
`last7Days` / `last30Days` / `last90Days`	rolling N-day window ending today (inclusive)
`thisMonth` / `lastMonth`	this = 1st→today; last = the full prior calendar month
`thisQuarter` / `lastQuarter`	this = quarter-start→today; last = the full prior quarter
`thisYear` / `lastYear`	this = Jan 1→today (YTD); last = the full prior year
`last12Months`	rolling 12 months ending today
`lastNdays` / `lastNweeks` / `lastNmonths`	arbitrary rolling window, e.g. `last45days`, `last2weeks`, `last6months`

Aliases: ytd, qtd, mtd, wtd, 7d, 30d, 90d, 12m.

Convention: this* windows are period-start → today (to-date); last* named periods are the full prior complete period.

Output

Each window prints a human line plus a JSON record:

start / end — inclusive civil dates (YYYY-MM-DD) in your local timezone
startUtc / endExclusiveUtc — the same span as a half-open [start, end) range of exact UTC instants, ideal for timestamp / createdAt-style queries
days, inclusive, timezone, tzOffsetMinutes, asOf — span, tz, and the instant the range was resolved

Use the returned dates as the time bounds for the task. The named shortcuts /today, /yesterday, /last30Days, /lastQuarter, … each call this same resolver for their one window.