calendar

A simple Go library to calculate recurring appointment dates within a time period. Supports all types of recurrences in Outlook and Google calendar

Getting Started

go get https://github.com/robarchibald/calendar

Create a Recurrence Struct (normally pulled from database)
call GetOccurrences(startTime, endTime)

// Every 4th weekday
startTime := time.Date(2016, 1, 1, 12, 30, 0, 0, time.UTC)
dailyIsOnlyWeekday := true
r := Recurrence{
	StartDate: 	           startTime,
	RecurrencePatternCode: "D",
	RecurEvery:            4,
	DailyIsOnlyWeekday:    &dailyIsOnlyWeekday}
occurrences := r.GetOccurrences(startTime, startTime.AddDate(0, 1, 0))

For additional examples, see recurrence_test.go

Notes about the Recurrence Struct

The Recurrence struct is modeled after the recurring schedule data model used by both Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar for recurring appointments. Just like Outlook, you can pick from Daily ("D"), Weekly ("W"), Monthly ("M") and Yearly ("Y") recurrence pattern codes. Each of those recurrence patterns then require the corresponding information to be filled in.

All recurrences:

StartDateTime - start time of the appointment. Should be set to the first desired occurence of the recurring appointment
RecurrencePatternCode - D: daily, W: weekly, M: monthly or Y: yearly
RecurEvery - number defining how many days, weeks, months or years to wait between recurrences
EndByDate (optional) - date by which recurrences must be done by
NumberOfOccurrences (optional) - data for UI which can be used to store the number of recurrences. Has no effect in calculations though. EndByDate must be calculated based on NumberOfOccurrences

Recurrence Pattern Code D (daily)

DailyIsOnlyWeekday (optional) - ensure that daily occurrences only fall on weekdays (M, T, W, Th, F)

Recurrence Pattern Code W (weekly)

WeeklyDaysIncluded - binary value (converted to int16) to indicate days included (e.g. 0101010 or decimal 42 would be MWF). Each of the individual days are bitwise AND'd together to get the value.
- Sunday - 64 (1000000)
- Monday - 32 (0100000)
- Tuesday - 16 (0010000)
- Wednesday - 8 (0001000)
- Thursday - 4 (0000100)
- Friday - 2 (0000010)
- Saturday - 1 (0000001)

Recurrence Pattern Code M (monthly)

MonthlyWeekOfMonth - week of the month to recur on. e.g. Thanksgiving is always on the 4th week of the month. Must be used together with MonthlyDayOfWeek
MonthlyDayOfWeek - day of the week to recur on (0=Sunday, 1=Monday, 2=Tuesday, 3=Wednesday, 4=Thursday, 5=Friday, 6=Saturday). Must be used together with MonthlyWeekOfMonth OR
MonthlyDay - day of the month to recur on. e.g. 5 would recur on the 5th of every month

Recurrence Pattern Code Y (yearly)

YearlyMonth - month of the year to recur on (1=January, 2=February, 3=March, 4=April, 5=May, 6=June, 7=July)
MonthlyWeekOfMonth - week of the month to recur on. e.g. Thanksgiving is always on the 4th week of the month. Note: in order to get the last week of the month, use 54 (which can be remembered by thinking take the 5th week unless it doesn't exist, then use 4th week). Must be used together with MonthlyDayOfWeek
MonthlyDayOfWeek - day of the week to recur on (0=Sunday, 1=Monday, 2=Tuesday, 3=Wednesday, 4=Thursday, 5=Friday, 6=Saturday). Must be used together with MonthlyWeekOfMonth OR
MonthlyDay - day of the month to recur on. e.g. 5 would recur on the 5th of every month