Effective String to Date conversion?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:56:04 UTC, atzensepp wrote:
> Dear D-gurus,
>
> being new to D I am trying my first steps and the language is 
> quite intuitive and appealing.
> When reading a file and creating a hash for the reocrds I want 
> to get only the most recent ones. For this I need to convert 
> Date/Time-Strings to comparable DateTime-Objects.
> The code below works but looks a bit clumsy. Is there a more 
> efficient (shorter) way to accomplish this?

That's how I would do it also.

I would note there also is a library I've used which works pretty 
well:

https://code.dlang.org/packages/dateparser

-Steve