function datePickerDouble()

in server/site/js/blocky.js [1311:1449]
100 lines of code
21 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

function datePickerDouble(seedPeriod) {
    // This basically takes a date-arg and doubles it backwards
    // so >=3M becomes =>6M etc. Also returns the cutoff for
    // the original date and the span in days of the original
    var ptype = ""
    var rv = seedPeriod
    var dbl = seedPeriod
    var tspan = 1
    var dfrom = new Date()
    var dto = new Date()
    
    // datepicker range?
    if (seedPeriod && seedPeriod.search && seedPeriod.search(/=/) != -1) {
        
        // Less than N units ago?
        if (seedPeriod.match(/lte/)) {
            var m = seedPeriod.match(/lte=(\d+)([dMyw])/)
            ptype = 'lt'
            rv = "<" + m[1] + m[2] + " ago"
            dbl = "lte=" + (parseInt(m[1])*2) + m[2]
            
            // N months ago
            if (m[2] == "M") {
                dfrom.setMonth(dfrom.getMonth()-parseInt(m[1]), dfrom.getDate())
            }
            
            // N days ago
            if (m[2] == "d") {
                dfrom.setDate(dfrom.getDate()-parseInt(m[1]))
            }
            
            // N years ago
            if (m[2] == "y") {
                dfrom.setYear(dfrom.getFullYear()-parseInt(m[1]))
            }
            
            // N weeks ago
            if (m[2] == "w") {
                dfrom.setDate(dfrom.getDate()-(parseInt(m[1])*7))
            }
            
            // Calc total duration in days for this time span
            tspan = parseInt((dto.getTime() - dfrom.getTime() + 5000) / (1000*86400))
        }
        
        // More than N units ago?
        if (seedPeriod.match(/gte/)) {
            ptype = 'mt'
            var m = seedPeriod.match(/gte=(\d+)([dMyw])/)
            rv = ">" + m[1] + m[2] + " ago"
            dbl = "gte=" + (parseInt(m[1])*2) + m[2]
            tspan = parseInt(parseInt(m[1]) * 30.4)
            dfrom = null
            
            // Months
            if (m[2] == "M") {
                dto.setMonth(dto.getMonth()-parseInt(m[1]), dto.getDate())
            }
            
            // Days
            if (m[2] == "d") {
                dto.setDate(dto.getDate()-parseInt(m[1]))
            }
            
            // Years
            if (m[2] == "y") {
                dto.setYear(dto.getFullYear()-parseInt(m[1]))
            }
            
            // Weeks
            if (m[2] == "w") {
                dto.setDate(dto.getDate()-(parseInt(m[1])*7))
            }
            
            // Can't really figure out a timespan for this, so...null!
            // This also sort of invalidates use on the trend page, but meh..
            tspan = null
        }
        
        // Date range?
        if (seedPeriod.match(/dfr/)) {
            ptype = 'cd'
            // Find from and to
            var mf = seedPeriod.match(/dfr=(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)/)
            var mt = seedPeriod.match(/dto=(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)/)
            if (mf && mt) {
                rv = "from " + mf[1] + " to " + mt[1]
                // Starts at 00:00:00 on from date
                dfrom = new Date(parseInt(mf[1]),parseInt(mf[2])-1,parseInt(mf[3]), 0, 0, 0)
                
                // Ends at 23:59:59 on to date
                dto = new Date(parseInt(mt[1]),parseInt(mt[2])-1,parseInt(mt[3]), 23, 59, 59)
                
                // Get duration in days, add 5 seconds to we can floor the value and get an integer
                tspan = parseInt((dto.getTime() - dfrom.getTime() + 5000) / (1000*86400))
                
                // double the distance
                var dpast = new Date(dfrom)
                dpast.setDate(dpast.getDate() - tspan)
                dbl = seedPeriod.replace(/dfr=[^|]+/, "dfr=" + (dpast.getFullYear()) + '-' + (dpast.getMonth()+1) + '-' + dpast.getDate())
            } else {
                tspan = 0
            }
        }
    }
    
    // just N days?
    else if (parseInt(seedPeriod).toString() == seedPeriod.toString()) {
        tspan = parseInt(seedPeriod)
        dfrom.setDate(dfrom.getDate() - tspan)
        dbl = "lte=" + (tspan*2) + "d"
    }
    
    // Specific month?
    else if (seedPeriod.match(/^(\d+)-(\d+)$/)) {
        // just a made up thing...(month range)
        ptype = 'mr' 
        var mr = seedPeriod.match(/(\d+)-(\d+)/)
        if (mr) {
            rv = seedPeriod
            // Same as before, start at 00:00:00
            dfrom = new Date(parseInt(mr[1]),parseInt(mr[2])-1,1, 0, 0, 0)
            // end at 23:59:59
            dto = new Date(parseInt(mr[1]),parseInt(mr[2]),0, 23, 59, 59)
            
            // B-A, add 5 seconds so we can floor the no. of days into an integer neatly
            tspan = parseInt((dto.getTime() - dfrom.getTime() + 5000) / (1000*86400))
            
            // Double timespan
            var dpast = new Date(dfrom)
            dpast.setDate(dpast.getDate() - tspan)
            dbl = "dfr=" + (dpast.getFullYear()) + '-' + (dpast.getMonth()+1) + '-' + dpast.getDate() + "|dto=" + (dto.getFullYear()) + '-' + (dto.getMonth()+1) + '-' + dto.getDate()
        } else {
            tspan = 0
        }
    }
    
    return [dbl, dfrom, dto, tspan]
}