v/vlib/time/README.md

Description:

V's time module, provides utilities for working with time and dates:

• parsing of time values expressed in one of the commonly used standard time/date formats
• formatting of time values
• arithmetic over times/durations
• converting between local time and UTC (timezone support)
• stop watches for accurately measuring time durations
• sleeping for a period of time

Examples:

You can see the current time. See:

import time

println(time.now())

time.Time values can be compared, see:

import time

const time_to_test = time.Time{
	year: 1980
	month: 7
	day: 11
	hour: 21
	minute: 23
	second: 42
	microsecond: 123456
	unix: 332198622
}

println(time_to_test.format())

assert '1980-07-11 21:23' == time_to_test.format()
assert '1980-07-11 21:23:42' == time_to_test.format_ss()
assert '1980-07-11 21:23:42.123' == time_to_test.format_ss_milli()
assert '1980-07-11 21:23:42.123456' == time_to_test.format_ss_micro()

You can also parse strings to produce time.Time values, see:

import time

s := '2018-01-27 12:48:34'
t := time.parse(s) or { panic('failing format: $s | err: $err') }
println(t)
println(t.unix)

V's time module also has these parse methods:

fn parse(s string) !Time
fn parse_iso8601(s string) !Time
fn parse_rfc2822(s string) !Time
fn parse_rfc3339(s string) !Time

Another very useful feature of the time module is the stop watch, for when you want to measure short time periods, elapsed while you executed other tasks. See:

import time

fn do_something() {
	time.sleep(510 * time.millisecond)
}

fn main() {
	sw := time.new_stopwatch()
	do_something()
	println('Note: do_something() took: $sw.elapsed().milliseconds() ms')
}