tpope/vim-speeddating

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Vim plugin by Tim Pope that makes CTRL-A/CTRL-X increment dates, times, datetimes, roman numerals, ordinals, and letters instead of just plain numbers. It supports custom strftime-like formats, visual-mode sequence generation, and setting timestamps to the current time.

Use cases

• increment dates in vim with ctrl-a
• fix vim incrementing 1999-12-31 to 1999-12-30
• generate sequences of dates across multiple lines in vim
• increment roman numerals and ordinals in vim
• set timestamp under cursor to current time in vim
• add custom date formats to vim increment

When to choose

• you edit logs, changelogs, or config files with dates in Vim
• you want Vim's native CTRL-A/CTRL-X to handle date and time formats correctly
• you need to build incrementing sequences over multiple lines in visual mode

When to avoid

• you don't use Vim or Neovim
• you only need date parsing/formatting in a program rather than in an editor
• you need a standalone CLI date manipulation tool

Facets

plugin · maturity maintenance

date-time editor plugin-system text-editors developer-tools cli cross-platform vim-plugin vimscript increment timestamps editor-extension vim

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