date.anytime

[Shinigami92]

Due to a requested reviews to use between instead of its own function, it slipped into the next branch that we dont have a method anymore that just provides a random date but without arguments/parameters
We need to fix that before releasing v8.0

#2053 (comment)

@ST-DDT suggested to add a date.anytime for that

[xDivisionByZerox]

Usually, we called those methods, that simply return "any" module-related value, sample.

Examples:

• faker.string.sample
• faker.word.sample

[matthewmayer]

date.whenever

[ST-DDT]

The idea behind anytime is using it with optional options.
anytime({ past: { days: 1}, future: { days: 42 } })

[matthewmayer]

faker.helpers.arrayElement([faker.date.past(), faker.date.future()])

[Shinigami92]

The idea behind anytime is using it with optional options. anytime({ past: { days: 1}, future: { days: 42 } })

In the first step, I would suggest to use date.anytime() or date.between()
Then in v8.1+ we can introduce params to date.anytime({ ... }) and move on from that

So for now we just "fix" the "there is no non-args date method"

Because we want to release (at least rc.0) end of this week 👀

[matthewmayer]

could this just be solved by adding defaults to the from and to parameters for between?

[ST-DDT]

could this just be solved by adding defaults to the from and to parameters for between?

Theoretically yes, but from the method name you expect it to require parameters.