icu_calendar

Types for dealing with dates and custom calendars.

This module is published as its own crate (icu_calendar) and as part of the icu crate. See the latter for more details on the ICU4X project. The [types] module has a lot of common types for dealing with dates.

[Calendar] is a trait that allows one to define custom calendars, and [Date] can represent dates for arbitrary calendars.

The [Iso] and [Gregorian] types are implementations for the ISO and Gregorian calendars respectively. Further calendars can be found in the [cal] module.

Most interaction with this crate will be done via the [Date] type.

Some of the algorithms implemented here are based on Dershowitz, Nachum, and Edward M. Reingold. Calendrical calculations. Cambridge University Press, 2008. with associated Lisp code found at https://github.com/EdReingold/calendar-code2.

Examples

Examples of date manipulation using Date object. Date objects are useful for working with dates, encompassing information about the day, month, year, as well as the calendar type.

use icu::calendar::{Date, types::Weekday};

// Creating ISO date: 1992-09-02.
let mut date_iso = Date::try_new_iso(1992, 9, 2)
    .expect("Failed to initialize ISO Date instance.");

assert_eq!(date_iso.weekday(), Weekday::Wednesday);
assert_eq!(date_iso.era_year().year, 1992);
assert_eq!(date_iso.month().ordinal, 9);
assert_eq!(date_iso.day_of_month().0, 2);

// Answering questions about days in month and year.
assert_eq!(date_iso.days_in_year(), 366);
assert_eq!(date_iso.days_in_month(), 30);

Example of converting an ISO date across Indian and Buddhist calendars.

use icu::calendar::Date;
use icu::calendar::cal::{Buddhist, Indian};

// Creating ISO date: 1992-09-02.
let mut date_iso = Date::try_new_iso(1992, 9, 2)
    .expect("Failed to initialize ISO Date instance.");

assert_eq!(date_iso.era_year().year, 1992);
assert_eq!(date_iso.month().ordinal, 9);
assert_eq!(date_iso.day_of_month().0, 2);

// Conversion into Indian calendar: 1914-08-02.
let date_indian = date_iso.to_calendar(Indian);
assert_eq!(date_indian.era_year().year, 1914);
assert_eq!(date_indian.month().ordinal, 6);
assert_eq!(date_indian.day_of_month().0, 11);

// Conversion into Buddhist calendar: 2535-09-02.
let date_buddhist = date_iso.to_calendar(Buddhist);
assert_eq!(date_buddhist.era_year().year, 2535);
assert_eq!(date_buddhist.month().ordinal, 9);
assert_eq!(date_buddhist.day_of_month().0, 2);

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