Timey

Timey is a command-line application written in Rust which allows for quick and easy translation between timestamps and formatted date-times.

Installation

First you'll need to install Rust. There are instructions here.

Once you have Rust installed, simply run:

cargo install timey

Usage

Parse a date-time string into a timestamp

$ timey parse '2019-03-05 00:00 +0100' --format '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M %z'
1551744000

$ timey parse '2019-03-05T00:00+01:00'
1525521780

Format a timestamp as a date-time string

$ timey format 1525521780
2019-03-05T00:00+01:00

timey format 1525521780 -f '%Y-%m-%d'
2018-05-05

Formatting Options

For a full list of formatting specifiers, see here.

Options

-c, --copy # Copy the result to your the clipboard
-f, --format # The date format to use for parsing/formatting
-m, --millis # Use timestamps in millis rather than seconds
-h, --help # Display help

Display Current Time

The -c flag for copying the result to the clipboard also works with these commands.

As a timestamp

$ timey now display
1551908316

$ timey now display -m
1551908316000

As a formatted date-time string

$ timey now format
2019-03-06T21:38:30.265352+00:00

$ timey now format -f '%Y-%m-%d'
2019-03-06