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Datetimes for Humans™
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Maya: Datetimes for Humans™

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Datetimes are very frustrating to work with in Python, especially when dealing

with different locales on different systems. This library exists to make the

simple things **much** easier, while admitting that time is an illusion

(timezones doubly so).



Datetimes should be interacted with via an API written for humans.



Maya is mostly built around the headaches and use-cases around parsing datetime data from websites.



☤ Basic Usage of Maya

---------------------



Behold, datetimes for humans!



.. code-block:: pycon



    >>> now = maya.now()

    



    >>> tomorrow = maya.when('tomorrow')

    



    >>> tomorrow.slang_date()

    'tomorrow'



    >>> tomorrow.slang_time()

    '23 hours from now'



    # Also: MayaDT.from_iso8601(...)

    >>> tomorrow.iso8601()

    '2017-02-10T22:17:01.445418Z'



    # Also: MayaDT.from_rfc2822(...)

    >>> tomorrow.rfc2822()

    'Fri, 10 Feb 2017 22:17:01 GMT'



    # Also: MayaDT.from_rfc3339(...)

    >>> tomorrow.rfc3339()

    '2017-02-10T22:17:01.44Z'



    >>> tomorrow.datetime()

    datetime.datetime(2016, 12, 16, 15, 11, 30, 263350, tzinfo=)



    # Automatically parse datetime strings and generate naive datetimes.

    >>> scraped = '2016-12-16 18:23:45.423992+00:00'

    >>> maya.parse(scraped).datetime(to_timezone='US/Eastern', naive=True)

    datetime.datetime(2016, 12, 16, 13, 23, 45, 423992)



    >>> rand_day = maya.when('2011-02-07', timezone='US/Eastern')

    



    # Maya speaks Python.

    >>> m = maya.MayaDT.from_datetime(datetime.utcnow())

    >>> print(m)

    Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:24:32 GMT



    >>> m = maya.MayaDT.from_struct(time.gmtime())

    >>> print(m)

    Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:24:32 GMT



    >>> m = maya.MayaDT(time.time())

    >>> print(m)

    Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:24:32 GMT



    >>> rand_day.day

    7



    >>> rand_day.add(days=10).day

    17



    # Always.

    >>> rand_day.timezone

    UTC



    # Range of hours in a day:

    >>> maya.intervals(start=maya.now(), end=maya.now().add(days=1), interval=60*60)

    



    # snap modifiers

    >>> dt = maya.when('Mon, 21 Feb 1994 21:21:42 GMT')

    >>> dt.snap('@d+3h').rfc2822()

    'Mon, 21 Feb 1994 03:00:00 GMT'



	# snap modifiers within a timezone

    >>> dt = maya.when('Mon, 21 Feb 1994 21:21:42 GMT')

    >>> dt.snap_tz('+3h@d', 'Australia/Perth').rfc2822()

	'Mon, 21 Feb 1994 16:00:00 GMT'



☤ Advanced Usage of Maya

------------------------



In addition to timestamps, Maya also includes a wonderfully powerful ``MayaInterval`` class, which represents a range of time (e.g. an event). With this class, you can perform a multitude of advanced calendar calculations with finesse and ease.



For example:



.. code-block:: pycon



    >>> from maya import MayaInterval



    # Create an event that is one hour long, starting now.

    >>> event_start = maya.now()

    >>> event_end = event_start.add(hours=1)



    >>> event = MayaInterval(start=event_start, end=event_end)



From here, there are a number of methods available to you, which you can use to compare this event to another event.



☤ Why is this useful?

---------------------



- All timezone algebra will behave identically on all machines, regardless of system locale.

- Complete symmetric import and export of both ISO 8601 and RFC 2822 datetime stamps.

- Fantastic parsing of both dates written for/by humans and machines (``maya.when()`` vs ``maya.parse()``).

- Support for human slang, both import and export (e.g. `an hour ago`).

- Datetimes can very easily be generated, with or without tzinfo attached.

- This library is based around epoch time, but dates before Jan 1 1970 are indeed supported, via negative integers.

- Maya never panics, and always carries a towel.



☤ What about Delorean_, Arrow_, & Pendulum_?

--------------------------------------------



All these projects complement each other, and are friends. Pendulum, for example, helps power Maya's parsing.



Arrow, for example, is a fantastic library, but isn't what I wanted in a datetime library. In many ways, it's better than Maya for certain things. In some ways, in my opinion, it's not.



I simply desire a sane API for datetimes that made sense to me for all the things I'd ever want to do—especially when dealing with timezone algebra. Arrow doesn't do all of the things I need (but it does a lot more!). Maya does do exactly what I need.



I think these projects complement each-other, personally. Maya is great for parsing websites, and dealing with calendar events!



.. _Delorean: https://delorean.readthedocs.io/

.. _Arrow: https://arrow.readthedocs.io/

.. _Pendulum: https://pendulum.eustace.io/



☤ Installing Maya

-----------------



Installation is easy, with:



    $ pip install maya



How to Contribute

-----------------



#. Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion around a feature idea or a bug.

#. Fork `the repository`_ on GitHub to start making your changes to the **master** branch (or branch off of it).

#. Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature works as expected.

#. Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published. :)



.. _`the repository`: http://github.com/timofurrer/maya