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Radar · Rust · Archive · Week 13 · Mar 24 – 30, 2025

jiff – a datetime library for Rust

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What changed
The crate of the week is jiff, a datetime library for Rust.
Production impact
The source does not say.
Try it
Add jiff = "0.5" to your Cargo.toml and create a DateTime instance.
Source
this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/03/26/this-week-in-rust-592/

Understand it, then run it

Run it now

Todayrust
// This program demonstrates how Rust’s standard library handles dates and times.
// It prints the current system time in seconds since the UNIX epoch.
// The crate of the week, `jiff`, would provide a richer API, but it is not part of the standard library.
use std::time::{SystemTime, UNIX_EPOCH};

fn main() {
    // Get the current system time
    let now = SystemTime::now();
    // Convert to seconds since UNIX_EPOCH
    let duration_since_epoch = now.duration_since(UNIX_EPOCH)
        .expect("Time went backwards");
    println!("Seconds since epoch: {}", duration_since_epoch.as_secs());
}

What it printed when we ran it on Rust 1.98.1 (edition 2024)

Seconds since epoch: 1790845398

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