pterotrack

Use discrete event simulation to plan your vacation!

Usage

Pterotrack requires three arguments. All date arguments should be specified as ISO 8601 dates (YYYY-MM-DD).

$ pterotrack <gain> <length> <end>

• gain is the amount of time off, in hours, you gain every pay period.
• length is the length of your pay period, in days
• end is when you want the simulation to end

Optional arguments are:

• --start-date to specify when the simulation should start (default is the current day)
• --start-pto (or -s) to specify how much time off you hold at simulation start (default is 0)
• --accum-date to specify the next time you accumulate time off (defaults to the value provided to --start-date, or the current date otherwise)

You can also plan vacations using the --vacation-file or -v option. To use this argument, create a comma-separated values file with two fields: date of vacation, and number of hours spent that day. For example, if I wanted to take two weeks off from my Monday-to-Friday 9-5 job during June 2014, I'd write

2014-06-09,8.0
2014-06-10,8.0
2014-06-11,8.0
2014-06-12,8.0
2014-06-13,8.0
2014-06-16,8.0
2014-06-17,8.0
2014-06-18,8.0
2014-06-19,8.0
2014-06-20,8.0

Save that into a file, and I could budget with

$ pterotrack --start-date 2014-05-31 -s 40 -v vacation.csv 4.0 14 2014-07-01

Comments, issues, and pull requests are welcome. Pterotrack is licensed under the terms of the Apache Public License 2.0 (see LICENSE).