<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Timestamp Microservice</title> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="https://cdn.hyperdev.com/us-east-1%3A52a203ff-088b-420f-81be-45bf559d01b1%2Ffavicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/> <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <body> <div class="container"> <h2>API Project: Timestamp Microservice</h2> <h3>User Stories:</h3> <ol class="user-stories"> <li>The API endpoint is <code>GET [project_url]/api/timestamp/:date_string?</code></li> <li>A date string is valid if can be successfully parsed by <code>new Date(date_string)</code>.<br> Note that the unix timestamp needs to be an <strong>integer</strong> (not a string) specifying <strong>milliseconds</strong>.<br> In our test we will use date strings compliant with ISO-8601 (e.g. <code>"2016-11-20"</code>) because this will ensure an UTC timestamp.</li> <li>If the date string is <strong>empty</strong> it should be equivalent to trigger <code>new Date()</code>, i.e. the service uses the current timestamp.</li> <li>If the date string is <strong>valid</strong> the api returns a JSON having the structure<br><code>{"unix": <date.getTime()>, "utc" : <date.toUTCString()> }</code><br> e.g. <code>{"unix": 1479663089000 ,"utc": "Sun, 20 Nov 2016 17:31:29 GMT"}</code></li> <li>If the date string is <strong>invalid</strong> the api returns a JSON having the structure <br> <code>{"error" : "Invalid Date" }</code>. </li> </ol> <h3>Example Usage:</h3> <ul> <li><a href="api/timestamp/2015-12-25">[project url]/api/timestamp/2015-12-25</a></li> <li><a href="api/timestamp/1451001600000">[project url]/api/timestamp/1451001600000</a></li> </ul> <h3>Example Output:</h3> <p> <code>{"unix":1451001600000, "utc":"Fri, 25 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT"}</code> </p> </div> <div class="footer"> <p> By <a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org/">freeCodeCamp</a> </p> </div> </body> </html>