https://tieske.github.io/date/

Date & Time module for Lua 5.x
https://tieske.github.io/date/

date datetime lua

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Date & Time module for Lua 5.x

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://tieske.github.io/date/
• Owner: Tieske
• License: mit
• Created: 2013-05-04T15:16:25.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-09-06T18:10:34.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-18T20:25:33.446Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: date, datetime, lua
• Language: Lua
• Homepage: https://tieske.github.io/date/
• Size: 202 KB
• Stars: 250
• Watchers: 16
• Forks: 54
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# LuaDate v2.2

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Lua Date and Time module for Lua 5.x.

## Features:

* Date and Time string parsing.

* Time addition and subtraction.

* Time span calculation.

* Support ISO 8601 Dates.

* Local time support.

* Lua module (not binary).

* Formats Date and Time like strftime.

## License

[MIT license](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).

## Documentation

Documentation is available in the `doc` folder, or [online at Github](http://tieske.github.io/date/).

## Tests

Tests are located in the `spec` directory and can be run using [busted](http://olivinelabs.com/busted/).

## Changelog:

### Releasing:

- search for "copyright" and update all occurences with proper years

- update version in:

  - `README.md` (at the top)

  - `date.lua` (at the top, and exported field `date.version`)

  - `index.html` (appr. line 20)

- update changelog below

- update rockspec

- commit as `release x.y.z` (omit trailing 0)

- tag as `version_x.y.z` (omit trailing 0)

- push commit & tags

- upload rock to luarocks

### Changes:

#### v2.2.1 released 6-Sep-2023

  - fix parsing timezone offset after a decimal number [#33](https://github.com/Tieske/date/pull/33)

  - also accept "," as a decimal separator [#31](https://github.com/Tieske/date/pull/31)

  - fix bad function call (no functional impact) [#34](https://github.com/Tieske/date/pull/34)

#### v2.2

  - add 'centuryflip' to set 2 digit year interpretation [#26](https://github.com/Tieske/date/pull/26)

#### v2.1.3

  - fix rockspec for Lua 5.4

#### v2.1.2

  - fix scientific notation [#9](https://github.com/Tieske/date/pull/9), now available for Lua 5.3

#### v2.1.1

  - fix for '>=' operator [#3](https://github.com/Tieske/date/pull/3), added test suite, added Travis CI, license MIT

#### v2.1

  - Lua 5.2 support. Global 'date' will no longer be set.

#### v2.0

  - original by Jas Latrix