malcommac/SwiftDate

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SwiftDate is a Swift library for parsing, validating, manipulating, comparing, and formatting dates, times, and timezones across Apple platforms and Linux. It offers expressive syntax for date math, component extraction, derived dates, region-aware creation (timezone/calendar/locale), colloquial formatting in 140+ languages, and time period support.

Use cases

• parse date strings in custom or ISO8601 formats in Swift
• format and display dates with timezones and locales in an iOS app
• do date math like adding hours and minutes to a date in Swift
• check if two dates are today, tomorrow, or in the same week
• convert dates between timezones and calendars
• generate relative date strings like '2 hours ago' in Swift
• generate random dates or enumerate date ranges in Swift

When to choose

• You are building an iOS, macOS, or server-side Swift (Vapor/Kitura) app that needs rich date parsing, manipulation, or formatting beyond Foundation's basics
• You need colloquial/relative date formatting across many languages and locales
• You want an expressive, well-tested API for timezone, calendar, and time-period logic in Swift

When to avoid

• Your project is not in Swift (the library targets Swift/Apple platforms and Linux)
• You only need trivial date handling that Foundation's Date and DateFormatter already cover and want zero extra dependencies
• You require a dependency with very recent release activity, as the latest release dates to September 2023

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library · maturity stable

date-time parser developer-tools cross-platform cross-platform date-manipulation date-parsing date-formatting timezone calendar codable time-periods relative-dates swift ios macos linux

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