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astrolabe

Date and time library for Rust. Aims to be feature rich, lightweight and easy-to-use.

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Astrolabe

Date and time library for Rust. Feature rich, lightweight and easy-to-use.

Overview

Astrolabe is a date and time library for Rust which aims to be feature rich, lightweight (zero dependencies) and easy-to-use. It implements formatting, parsing and manipulating functions for date and time values.

Features

  • Formatting and parsing with format strings based on Unicode Date Field Symbols
  • RFC 3339 timestamp parsing and formatting
  • Manipulation functions to add, subtract, set and clear date units
  • Cron expression parser
  • Timezone offset
  • Local timezone on UNIX platforms
  • Zero dependencies
  • Serde serializing and deserializing (With feature flag serde)
  • sqlx postgres encoding and decoding (With feature flag sqlx-postgres)

Examples

Basic

A basic example which demonstrates creating, formatting and manipulating a DateTime instance.

use astrolabe::{DateTime, TimeUtilities, Precision};

// Create a DateTime instance from year, month, and days (day of month)
let date_time = DateTime::from_ymd(2022, 5, 2).unwrap();

// Use the format function to freely format your DateTime instance
assert_eq!("2022/05/02", date_time.format("yyyy/MM/dd"));

// Create a new instance with a modified DateTime
// The previous instance is not modified and is still in scope
let modified_dt = date_time.add_hours(11).add_minutes(23);

assert_eq!("2022/05/02 11:23:00", modified_dt.format("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss"));
assert_eq!("2022-05-02T11:23:00Z", modified_dt.format_rfc3339(Precision::Seconds));

To see all implementations for the DateTime struct, check out it's documentation.

Local timezone (UNIX systems only)

Astrolabe can parse the timezone from /etc/localtime to get the local UTC offset. This only works on UNIX systems.

use astrolabe::{DateTime, Offset, OffsetUtilities, Precision};

// Equivalent to `DateTime::now().set_offset(Offset::Local)`
let now = DateTime::now_local();

// Prints for example:
// 2023-10-08T08:30:00+02:00
println!("{}", now.format_rfc3339(Precision::Seconds));
assert_eq!(Offset::Local, now.get_offset());

See Offset

CRON parsing

use astrolabe::CronSchedule;

// Every 5 minutes
let schedule = CronSchedule::parse("*/5 * * * *").unwrap();
for date in schedule.take(3) {
   println!("{}", date);
}
// Prints for example:
// 2022-05-02 16:15:00
// 2022-05-02 16:20:00
// 2022-05-02 16:25:00

// Every weekday at 10:00
let schedule = CronSchedule::parse("0 10 * * Mon-Fri").unwrap();
for date in schedule.take(3) {
   println!("{}", date.format("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss eeee"));
}
// Prints for example:
// 2022-05-03 10:00:00 Tuesday
// 2022-05-04 10:00:00 Wednesday
// 2022-05-05 10:00:00 Thursday

See CronSchedule

MSRV

This crate uses the Rust 2021 Edition and requires at least version 1.60. When using features that require third-party crates (serde or sqlx), please refer to their MSRV.

License

Licensed under either of

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

Dependencies

~0–10MB
~118K SLoC