While the merging of DateTime functionality into Base is simmering, I've
finally got around to making the rewrite more broadly available. You can
see the latest DateTime functionality by running:
Pkg.add("Datetime")
Pkg.checkout("Datetime","dev")
include(Pkg.dir() * "/Datetime/src/Dates.jl")
using Dates
This code is almost identical to what is proposed to be merged into Base;
mainly it's cleaner and much faster. Notable changes include the removal of
leap second support (see more discussion
here<https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/5328>),
and the removal of Timezone support (this is forthcoming in the
TimeZones.jl package). There is also more, official Date/DateTime parsing
functionality.
Be sure to check out the update of the documentation
too: https://github.com/karbarcca/Datetime.jl/wiki/Dates-module:-dev-branch
Anyway, wanted to give everyone the chance to try stuff out and possibly
work out any other issues. Enjoy!
-Jacob
