DateTime

API docs

Custom date-time implementation for Haxe. Does not store milliseconds information. Contains classes and methods for manipulating intervals and date/time math.

DateTime is an abstract type on top of Float, so it does not create any objects (unlike standard Haxe Date class) and saves you some memory :)

Also DateTime supports dates from 1 a.d. to 16 777 215 a.d. (maybe even more)

DateTime is completely crossplatform, because it's written in plain Haxe.

Timezones

DateTime uses IANA timezone database to deal with timezones: http://www.iana.org/time-zones

Local timezone detection code is a straightforward port of jstimezonedetect library: https://bitbucket.org/pellepim/jstimezonedetect. Notice: Read 'Limitations' of original library readme.

Performance

Depending on platfrom you target and methods of DateTime you use it can be up to 7 times faster than standard Date class or up to 10 times slower.

Timezone database

Unless you reference Timezone class somewhere in your code, it will not be compiled. But you will still be able to get local time by DateTime.local() method.

Full timezone database is ~116Kb. It becomes less then 50Kb when gziped by web server. Timezone database will be compiled into your binary only if you use Timezone class somewhere in your code.

Additionally you have an option to avoid embedding timezone database by providing a -D EXTERNAL_TZ_DB flag to Haxe compiler.

You can load timezone database at runtime from external sources (filesystem, web server, etc.) and pass it to datetime.Timezone.loadData(data:String) (where data is contents of src/datetime/data/tz.dat file)

Since timezones can change several times every year because of various laws in different countries, perhaps you need to update timezones database using haxelib run datetime command (or do it manually)

Timezone database is stored in src/datetime/data/tz.dat file of DateTime library.

Installation

haxelib install datetime

Examples

var utcNow = DateTime.now(); // Current date and time in UTC

var utc = DateTime.fromString('2014-09-19 01:37:45');
//or
var utc : DateTime = '2014-09-19 01:37:45';
//or
var utc = DateTime.fromTime(1411090665);
//or
var utc : DateTime = 1411090665;
//or
var utc = DateTime.make(2014, 9, 19, 1, 37, 45);
//or
var utc = DateTime.fromDate( new Date(2014, 9, 19, 1, 37, 45) );
//or
var utc : DateTime = new Date(2014, 9, 19, 1, 37, 45);

trace( utc.format('%F %T') );    // 2014-09-19 01:37:45
trace( utc.getYear() );          // 2014
trace( utc.isLeapYear() );       // false
trace( utc.getTime() );          // 1411090665
trace( utc.getMonth() );         // 9
trace( utc.getDay() );           // 19
trace( utc.getHour() );          // 1
trace( utc.getMinute() );        // 37
trace( utc.getSecond() );        // 45
trace( utc.getWeekDay() );       // 5

//find last Sunday of current month
trace( utc.getWeekDayNum(Sunday, -1) ); // 2014-09-28 00:00:00

//find DateTime of May in current year
var may : DateTime = utc.getMonthStart(May);
trace( may ); // 2014-05-01 00:00:00

//snap to the beginning of current month
utc.snap( Month(Down) );            // 2014-10-01 00:00:00
//snap to next year
utc.snap( Year(Up) );               // 2015-01-01 00:00:00
//find next Monday
utc.snap( Week(Up, Monday) );
//find nearest Wednesday
utc.snap( Week(Nearest, Wednesday) );

trace( utc.add(Year(1)) );       // 2014-09-19 -> 2015-09-19
trace( utc + Year(1) );          // 2014-09-19 -> 2015-09-19

trace( utc.add(Day(4)) );        // 2014-09-19 -> 2014-09-23
trace( utc += Day(4) );          // 2014-09-19 -> 2014-09-23

trace( utc.add(Minute(10)) );    // 01:37:45 -> 01:47:45
trace( utc + Minute(10) );       // 01:37:45 -> 01:47:45

trace( utc.add(Second(-40)) );   // 01:37:45 -> 01:37:05
trace( utc - Second(40) );       // 01:37:45 -> 01:37:05

trace( utc.add(Week(3)) );       // 2014-09-19 -> 2014-10-10
trace( utc + Week(3) );          // 2014-09-19 -> 2014-10-10

trace( utc.snap(Year(Down)) );           // 2014-01-01 00:00:00
trace( utc.snap(Year(Up)) );             // 2015-01-01 00:00:00
trace( utc.snap(Year(Nearest)) );        // 2015-01-01 00:00:00
trace( utc.snap(Week(Up, Wednesday)) );  // 2014-09-24 00:00:00

var utc2 : DateTime = '2015-11-19 01:37:45';
var dti  : DateTimeInterval = utc2 - utc;   //this interval now contains 1 year and 2 months
trace( dti.toString() );                    // (1y, 2m)
trace( utc + dti );                         // 2015-11-19 01:37:45

//assuming your timezone has +4:00 offset
trace (utc.local());    // 2014-09-19 05:37:45

//If timezones database is not embedded or you need to load an updated database
var data:String = ... //load from external source
Timezone.loadData(data);

var tz = Timezone.local();
trace( tz.getName() );                  // Europe/Moscow
trace( tz.at(utc) );                    // 2014-09-19 05:37:45
trace( tz.format(utc, '%F %T %z %Z') ); // 2014-09-19 05:37:45 +0400 MSK