add Bun.ms: ms-style duration parse/format API

[robobun]

Stacked on #30529 (merge that first; this PR's diff is shown against its branch). Reuses the parse_ms landed in #30529.

Requested in #18597; supersedes the earlier attempt #23162 (which predated the Rust rewrite by ~1200 commits).

Note: this was previously stacked on #31608 (the configVersion-gated 2-day default), which was declined because the npm registry's compact Content-Type doesn't carry the time data the age filter needs. Bun.ms doesn't depend on any of that — it's been rebased directly onto #30529.

What

Bun.ms — modeled on the npm ms package:

Bun.ms("2 days");              // 172800000   (parse string → ms)
Bun.ms("1h");                  // 3600000
Bun.ms("-1.5h");               // -5400000
Bun.ms("nonsense");            // undefined   (unparseable → undefined, like ms)
Bun.ms(60000);                 // "1m"        (format ms → string)
Bun.ms(60000, { long: true }); // "1 minute"
Bun.ms(172800000);             // "2d"
Bun.ms(1.5);                   // "1.5ms"

How

• Parse (string → number) reuses bun_core::parse_ms from install: accept ms-style duration strings for minimumReleaseAge #30529.
• Format (number → string) adds bun_core::format_ms, kept in f64 throughout and stringified with WTF's dtoa (JS Number.prototype.toString semantics): JavaScript Math.round tie-breaking (round half toward +∞), pluralization at ≥ 1.5× in the long form, and the same unit scale (a year is 365.25 days).

ms-package behavior matched

• Unparseable non-empty strings return undefined (not a throw), so Bun.ms(input) ?? fallback works. Empty string / non-string-non-number inputs throw (matching ms's typeof checks — boxed new String(...) throws too).
• Formatting emits at most days (never weeks/years — those are parse-only); sub-second keeps the raw number (Bun.ms(1.5) → "1.5ms"); months are not a unit (Bun.ms("1mo") → undefined).

One intentional difference: the underlying parse_ms (shared with bunfig / --minimum-release-age parsing in #30529) is slightly more lenient than ms's anchored regex — it trims surrounding whitespace and accepts a leading +. It's strictly a superset, so anything ms parses, Bun.ms parses identically.

Verification

test/js/bun/util/ms.test.ts — 13 tests pass on debug+ASAN: compact/long/case-insensitive parsing, undefined-on-unparseable, empty-string/boxed-object/wrong-type throwing, compact/long formatting, JS-round tie-breaking, raw sub-second, parse↔format round-trips, and non-finite rejection. cargo clippy clean on bun_core + bun_runtime; debug + release both build clean. Docs added to docs/runtime/utils.mdx + bun-apis.mdx.

[robobun]

^{Updated 7:35 PM PT - Jun 3rd, 2026}

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This PR may be a duplicate of:

1. implement Bun.ms #23162 - Earlier Zig-based implementation of the same Bun.ms() parse/format API
2. Cleaner way to implement Bun.ms #23724 - Alternative implementation of Bun.ms()

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[robobun]

Yep — this intentionally supersedes #23162 (and its follow-up #23724), which implemented the same Bun.ms API in Zig before the Rust rewrite (~1200 commits ago) and never merged. This PR is the Rust port: it reuses the parse_ms already landed in this stack (#30529) and adds format_ms, matching the npm ms package exactly. Noted in the PR description; closes #18597.

[claude]

All prior feedback addressed and the implementation looks solid — deferring to a human since this ships a new public Bun.* API surface (and is stacked on two unmerged PRs), which is a product call worth a maintainer's sign-off.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR adds Bun.ms(), a new public utility on the Bun global modeled on the npm ms package: string → milliseconds parsing (reusing bun_core::parse_ms from earlier in the stack) and milliseconds → string formatting (new bun_core::format_ms). Touches: ~76 lines of new Rust in fmt.rs + a ~67-line host fn in BunObject.rs, one-line wiring in the C++ LUT (BunObject.cpp / BunObject+exports.h), a re-export in lib.rs, two .d.ts overloads, two docs pages, and a 165-line test file (13 tests).

Prior review history

I left five rounds of inline comments on earlier revisions (sub-second truncation, non-number coercion, i64 saturation, undefined-vs-throw on unparseable strings, boxed-string handling, dead exception check, missing docs, a TS2769 in the test, and a broken docs example). Every one was addressed in follow-up commits (53897e2, 37e71ed, f18b3df, cbb40a7, a30583f) and all threads are resolved. The current bug-hunting pass found nothing new.

Security risks

None identified. The function is a pure string/number converter with no I/O, no filesystem/network access, and no auth/crypto/permission implications. Inputs are bounded (parse_ms operates on the byte slice directly with no regex backtracking; format_ms is constant-time per call). The one unsafe block (from_utf8_unchecked on dtoa output) is sound — WTF's dtoa only emits ASCII.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate. The implementation itself is small, well-commented, and now thoroughly tested. What pushes this above my auto-approval bar is that it introduces new public API surface on the Bun global — the overload shapes, the undefined-on-unparseable contract, and the documented intentional divergence from npm ms (lenient whitespace/+ parsing) are product decisions that become hard to change once shipped. That's a maintainer's call, not a bot's.

Other factors

• Stacked on #31608 → #30529, both of which must merge first; merge order is a human concern.
• CI shows musl LTO link failures and one Windows bun-install.test.ts failure that look unrelated/infrastructural, but a human should confirm before merge.
• Test coverage is good: parsing (compact/long/case-insensitive/negatives), formatting (compact/long/rounding/pluralization/sub-second), strict type rejection, round-trips, and non-finite rejection.

[robobun]

CI status

Build 60210 (rebased tip, sha d3ea742): 269+ jobs passed; all 15 failing lanes fail on the same single test — test/cli/install/bunx.test.ts → "should handle package that requires node 24", which runs live bunx --bun @angular/cli@latest against the real npm registry. The latest Angular publish exits 3 under --bun, breaking that test tree-wide on every platform: it fails identically on plain main (bf70cc79c4) with zero changes from this stack. test/js/bun/util/ms.test.ts is not in any failure set.

This needs a tree-wide fix (pin the Angular version in the test, or investigate the --bun incompatibility) — outside this PR's scope.

Bun.ms builds clean in debug + release, passes 13/13 tests locally, clippy clean. Stacked on #30529 — merge that first. Diff is green; ready for review/merge + maintainer sign-off on the new public API.

[claude]

All my earlier feedback has been addressed and the implementation looks solid; deferring for a human to sign off on adding Bun.ms to the public API surface (and on the stacked #30529 dependency).

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR adds Bun.ms() — an ms-package-compatible duration parse/format utility — as a new public function on the Bun global. It touches: src/bun_core/fmt.rs (new format_ms + js_math_round + write_js_number helpers), src/runtime/api/BunObject.rs (the host fn), src/jsc/bindings/BunObject.cpp / BunObject+exports.h (LUT wiring), packages/bun-types/bun.d.ts (two overloads + MsOptions), docs (bun-apis.mdx, utils.mdx), and a new 165-line test file. The PR is stacked on #30529.

Security risks

None identified. The function is pure string/number conversion with no I/O, no auth, no filesystem/network access. Inputs are strictly type-checked (primitive string or finite number only); the parser operates on a bounded byte slice with no allocation proportional to untrusted input beyond the input string itself. The one unsafe block (from_utf8_unchecked over WTF dtoa output) is sound — dtoa only emits ASCII.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate-to-high, primarily because this adds new public API surface to the Bun global. The implementation itself is small, self-contained, and well-tested (13 tests covering parse/format/edge cases/type strictness), and went through five rounds of review feedback in this thread — all of which the author addressed (sub-second truncation, i64 saturation, type coercion, undefined-on-unparseable, boxed-string handling, dead-code cleanup, docs, doc-example correctness, TS overload typecheck). The remaining decision is product/API-shape, not correctness: whether Bun.ms belongs on the global, and whether the documented one intentional divergence (slightly more lenient whitespace/+ parsing than npm ms) is acceptable.

Other factors

• The author's own final comment explicitly requests "maintainer sign-off on the new Bun.ms public API."
• Stacked on #30529, which must merge first.
• CI is green on Linux/Windows; darwin failures are unrelated infra issues (missing Postgres role, OOM-killed runner).
• No CODEOWNERS conflict apparent for these paths.

Given that new public API surface is a design decision a human maintainer should ratify, I'm deferring rather than approving.