mwtimestamp

mwtimestamp is a library for parsing and formatting Mediawiki timestamps, powered by chrono.

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mwtimestamp

mwtimestamp is a library for parsing and formatting MediaWiki timestamps, powered by chrono.

The MediaWiki API typically produces ISO 8601 timestamps. In some cases, like protection or block expiry, it may alternatively return the string "infinity" to represent that there is no end period.

use mwtimestamp::{Expiry, Timestamp};
// Deserializing a fixed timestamp
let finite: Timestamp = serde_json::from_str("\"2001-01-15T14:56:00Z\"").unwrap();
assert_eq!(
    finite.date_naive(),
    chrono::NaiveDate::from_ymd_opt(2001, 1, 15).unwrap(),
);
// Deserializing an infinite timestamp
let infinity: Expiry = serde_json::from_str("\"infinity\"").unwrap();
assert!(infinity.is_infinity());

Contributing

mwtimestamp is a part of the mwbot-rs project. We're always looking for new contributors, please reach out if you're interested!