Formatted date

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, November 03, 2011 16:58 Lishaak Bystroushaak wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Is there any way how to format date with formating strings? Something
> like strftime in python;
> http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior

Not currently. SysTime (and the other time point types in std.datetime) have 
functions for converting them to specific ISO standards but not custom 
formatting strings. That's in the works but hasn't been completed yet.

In the meantime, you can get a time_t from a SysTime using its unixTime 
property and pass that to C's strftime (though be warned that it risks being 
an hour off on Windows, since for some bizarre reason Windows applies DST to 
UTC such that time_t on Windows isn't actually guaranteed to always be the 
number of seconds since midnight January 1st, 1970 in UTC).

Another alternative is that someone ported the deprecated std.dateparse (which 
worked with the deprecated and very broken std.date) to use SysTime, and you 
can use that: https://gist.github.com/1283011

toCustomString will be added to SysTime and the other time point types in 
std.datetime, but its design hasn't been completed sorted out yet, let alone 
fully implemented, so it's in the works, but it could be a little while before 
it makes it into Phobos.

- Jonathan M Davis