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Read Me

Overview

ezDateTime is a C++ library and utility that parses (ISO 8601) datetime strings (with timezone) into quickly sortable values (and back to strings) and allows arithmetic with various calendars and units.

Calendars supported are

  • No Leap (365 days per year)
  • Gregorian
  • All Leap (366 days per year)
  • 360 Days
  • Julian
  • Proleptic

For arithmetic, units for offsets and deltas can be in years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes or seconds.

Future and past datetimes can also be computed relative to a baseline using an offset (a technique often used in scientific datasets such as NetCDF climate models). As a simple example, you can find the datetime for 365 relative to the unit baseline "days since 2011-01-01 12:00", which would result in "2012-01-01 12:00".

The library is a single header file with only ISO dependencies.

Download

Source code

Git

Testing

make test
make memtest
make clean

Installation

sudo make install PREFIX=/usr/local

Command-line Usage

# Convert to a double encoding. Prints 2012081.5.
ezdatetime --double 2012-03-21 7:00 -5:00

# Same as above, but more compact ISO string.
ezdatetime --double 201203210700-500

# Convert from a double encoding. Prints 2012-03-21 12:00:00.
ezdatetime 2012081.5

# Get future date time relative to a baseline assuming Gregorian calendar.
# Prints 2012-03-23 00:00:00.
ezdatetime 1.5 days since 2012-03-21 12:00

# Similar as above, but used "after" instead of "since".
ezdatetime 1.5 days after now

# Batch process values since a baseline.
ezdatetime -f /tmp/dates days since 2012

# Same as above, but prints 2012083.0.
ezdatetime --double 1.5 days since 2012-03-21 12:00

# Get past date time. Prints 2012-2-29 (when using leap calendar).
ezdatetime 1 day before 2012-03-1

# Get past date time from now.
ezdatetime 2 months before now
ezdatetime 2 weeks before now

# Get duration between two values. Prints 1.5.
ezdatetime days between 2012-3-22 7:00 -5 and 2012-03-21 1:00 +1

# Get days from beginning of year in nonleap calendar.
ezdatetime -c noleap days between now and 2012

# Batch process file with 2 dates per line split by a comma.
ezdatetime -f /tmp/dates days between

C++ Usage

#include "ezDateTime.hpp"

int main() {
  // Convert string to a sortable double.
  std::string s = "2000-12-30 01:34:15.5 -6:00";
  double dValue;
  char tzHr, tzMin;
  char cal = ez::ezDateTime::GREGORIAN;
  ez::ezDateTime::fromString(dValue, s, cal, tzHr, tzMin);

  // Get components, up to microseconds; I didn't need more precision :).
  int year, month, day, hr, min;
  float sec;
  ez::ezDateTime::fromDouble(dValue, year, month, day, hr, min, sec, cal);

  // Do arithmetic.
  ez::ezTimeDelta delta;
  delta.seconds = 1;
  delta.minutes = 1;
  delta.hours = 1;
  delta.days = -1;
  delta.months = -1;
  delta.years = -1;
  double future = ez::ezDateTime::add(dValue, delta);

  // Find number of units from datetime zero.
  double seconds = ez::ezDateTime::toSeconds(dValue, cal);
  double minutes = ez::ezDateTime::toMinutes(dValue, cal);
  double hours = ez::ezDateTime::toHours(dValue, cal);
  double days = ez::ezDateTime::toDays(dValue, cal);
  double weeks = ez::ezDateTime::toWeeks(dValue, cal);
  double months = ez::ezDateTime::toMonths(dValue, cal);
  double years = ez::ezDateTime::toYears(dValue, cal);

  // Convert between timezones.
  double EST = ez::ezDateTime::utcToTimezone(dValue, -5, 0, cal);

  // Convert back to an ISO-8601 string.
  std::string str;
  ez::ezDateTime::toString(str, EST, cal);

  // Compute number of weeks between two dates.
  ez::ezDateTime::now(str);
  ez::ezDateTime dt1( str, cal );
  ez::ezDateTime dt2( "2012", cal );
  double diff = dt1.minus(dt2, ez::ezDateTime::WEEKS);

  return 0;
}

Help Message

ezdatetime -- datetime utilities.

USAGE: ezdatetime [OPTIONS] datetime
       ezdatetime [OPTIONS] [units] [since|after|before] datetime
       ezdatetime [OPTIONS] [units] between [now|datetime] and [now|datetime]

OPTIONS:

-c, --cal, --calendar ARG   Set calendar to either "gregorian", "julian",
                            "noleap" or "365", "all_leap" or "366", "360",
                            "proleptic". Default is gregorian.

-D, --debug                 Print debug messages.

-d, --double                Print results as UTC doubles.

-f, --file ARG              Input file for batch processing. For batch
                            "between", separate both values by a comma. For
                            all other batch operations, just have one value
                            per line.

-h, --help, --usage ARG     Display usage instructions.
                            There is a choice of three different layouts for
                            description alignment. Your choice can be any one
                            of the following to suit your style:

                            0 - align (default)
                            1 - interleave
                            2 - stagger

-n, --nonewline             Do not print newline characters. Lists will be
                            comma delimited.

-v, --version               Display version info.

-w, --whole                 Print time with whole numbers (no decimals).

--timezone, --tz ARG        Set output to given timezone, such as -1:30 or 1
                            or +6.

ezdatetime '0.3.2' Copyright Remik Ziemlinski
Software is provided AS IS without WARRANTY under an MIT license.

Distribution

make html
make clean
make dist VER=0.3.2

Publishing

ssh -t rsz,ezdatetime@shell.sourceforge.net create
scp html/* rsz,ezdatetime@shell.sourceforge.net:/home/project-web/ezdatetime/htdocs
scp ../ezDateTime-0.3.2.tar.gz rsz,ezdatetime@shell.sourceforge.net:/home/frs/project/e/ez/ezdatetime

Changelog

v0.3.2 20120716

  • Updated options documentation in usage message.

v0.3.1 20120711

  • Added "now" support to after/since command-line option.

v0.3.0 20120711

  • Allow past queries such as "ezdatetime 180 days before now".
  • "after" and "since" are interchangable keywords for command-line.

v0.2.1 20120626

  • All regression tests pass.
  • First official "usable" release.

v0.2.0 20120603

  • Restructured and cleaned some files.
  • Added to git repo.
  • Added command-line tool ezdatetime.

v0.1.0 20111223

  • Timezone support added.

v0.0.0 20111201

  • Initial release.

License

Copyright 2011, 2012 Remik Ziemlinski (see MIT-LICENSE)

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