Rust DateTime Formatting Examples With chrono
Just a few date formats I like to use
```cargo
[dependencies]
chrono = "0.4.38"
```
use chrono::prelude::*;
fn main() {
let date_string = "2003-01-08 04:05:06";
let dt = NaiveDateTime::parse_from_str(date_string, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S").unwrap();
let formats: Vec<(&str, &str)> = vec![
("", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"),
("", "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"),
("", "%B %Y"),
("", "%b %Y"),
("", "%a. %B %-d - %-I:%M%p"),
];
formats.iter().for_each(|format|
{
println!("{}", format!("{:^24} | {:^25}", format.1, dt.format(format.1)));
}
);
}
Output:
%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S | 2003-01-08 04:05:06
%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S | 2003-01-08T04:05:06
%B %Y | January 2003
%b %Y | Jan 2003
%a. %B %-d - %-I:%M%p | Wed. January 8 - 4:05AM
All the specifiers are here:
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