dateparser 0.3.0

#Date Parser

Docs

A port of the Python Dateutil date parser. This module offers a generic date/time string parser which is able to parse most known formats to represent a date and/or time. This module attempts to be forgiving with regards to unlikely input formats, returning a SysTime object even for dates which are ambiguous.

As this follows SemVer, this is currently beta quality software. Expect the API to break many times until this hits 1.0.

Compiles with D versions 2.068 and up. Tested with ldc v0.17.0 and dmd v2.068.2 - v2.070.2. In order to use this with LDC and DMD 2.068, you must download and compile this manually due to a limitation in the dub.json format.

##Install With Dub

{
    ...
    "dependencies": {
        "dateparser": "~>0.1.0"
    }
}

Simple Example

View the docs for more.

import std.datetime;
import dateparser;

void main()
{
    assert(parse("2003-09-25") == SysTime(DateTime(2003, 9, 25)));
}

Speed

String	Python	LDC	DMD
Thu Sep 25 10:36:28 BRST 2003	156 µs	15 μs and 7 hnsecs	25 μs
2003-09-25T10:49:41.5-03:00	136 µs	13 μs and 3 hnsecs	21 μs and 2 hnsecs
09.25.2003	124 µs	41 μs and 1 hnsec	32 μs and 9 hnsecs
2003-09-25	66.4 µs	8 μs and 2 hnsecs	12 μs and 3 hnsecs

To Do

In order of importance:

• ✓ Pass all tests
• make interface more idiomatic D, which includes
• range-ify interface
• ✓ remove as many GC allocations as possible
• ✓ get at least 6x faster than the Python version

I will consider this library to be at 1.0.0 when the first three happen.