digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 17558] New: DateTime should support custom user-provided
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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17558 Issue ID: 17558 Summary: DateTime should support custom user-provided formatting Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P1 Component: phobos Assignee: nobody puremagic.com Reporter: andrej.mitrovich gmail.com Currently there's a collection of formatting functions, but each one follows some predefined standard, such as: - toSimpleString - toISOString - toISOExtString However if you want your own formatting, you have to do everything manually currently, which is a pain. Here's what I envision the API to be like: ------ // auto time = SysTime(...); // imagine it's 2017-02-03 14:10:50 auto formatted = time.toFormattedString("YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM"); assert(formatted == "2017-02-03 14:10"); auto formatted = time.toFormattedString("YYYY-MM HHh"); assert(formatted == "2017-02 14h"); ------ The exact formatting strings defined aren't important to me, but having the ability to output certain information I want in a certain format is important - e.g. leaving out seconds, using numbers instead of words for months, etc.. --
Jun 26 2017