package hotline import ( "encoding/binary" "slices" "time" ) type Time [8]byte // macEpoch is the classic Mac OS time epoch: seconds are counted from // midnight, January 1, 1904 (local time). The 4-byte seconds field of the // Hotline time format overflows a uint32 on 2040-02-06; the original protocol // shares this limitation. var macEpoch = time.Date(1904, time.January, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.Local) // NewTime converts a time.Time to the 8 byte Hotline time format: // Year (2 bytes), milliseconds (2 bytes) and seconds (4 bytes). // // The seconds field holds seconds since the classic Mac OS epoch // (1904-01-01), matching the original Hotline server. Some clients (e.g. // Pitbull Pro) ignore the year field and decode the seconds field as a raw // Mac timestamp; encoding seconds-since-start-of-year instead made those // clients always display the year 1904 (see issue #166). func NewTime(t time.Time) (b Time) { yearBytes := make([]byte, 2) secondBytes := make([]byte, 4) binary.BigEndian.PutUint16(yearBytes, uint16(t.Year())) binary.BigEndian.PutUint32(secondBytes, uint32(t.Sub(macEpoch).Seconds())) return [8]byte(slices.Concat( yearBytes, []byte{0, 0}, secondBytes, )) } // NewNewsTime converts a time.Time to the year-relative timestamp encoding // used by threaded-news article lists. Classic Hotline clients combine the // leading year field with seconds elapsed since January 1 of that year. // // This intentionally differs from NewTime's Mac-epoch encoding, which is // needed for compatibility with clients such as Pitbull Pro in other protocol // fields. func NewNewsTime(t time.Time) (b Time) { localTime := t.In(time.Local) startOfYear := time.Date(localTime.Year(), time.January, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.Local) binary.BigEndian.PutUint16(b[0:2], uint16(localTime.Year())) binary.BigEndian.PutUint32(b[4:8], uint32(localTime.Sub(startOfYear).Seconds())) return b } // Time converts the Hotline Time format to a Go time.Time. // The Hotline format stores: Year (2 bytes) + milliseconds (2 bytes, unused) + // seconds since the Mac OS epoch (4 bytes). func (t Time) Time() time.Time { seconds := binary.BigEndian.Uint32(t[4:8]) return macEpoch.Add(time.Duration(seconds) * time.Second) } // NewsTime decodes the year-relative timestamp format produced by // NewNewsTime. func (t Time) NewsTime() time.Time { year := binary.BigEndian.Uint16(t[0:2]) seconds := binary.BigEndian.Uint32(t[4:8]) startOfYear := time.Date(int(year), time.January, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.Local) return startOfYear.Add(time.Duration(seconds) * time.Second) } // Format returns the time formatted according to the layout string. // This is a convenience wrapper around Time().Format(). func (t Time) Format(layout string) string { return t.Time().Format(layout) }