Date Differencer

Calculate the time interval between two supported date-time values and output the result in years plus months plus days plus hours plus minutes plus seconds plus nanoseconds (instead of representing the same duration in different units). This library is useful for lifespan check and age calculation.

Supported Date-Time Crates

Date-time crate support is enabled through Cargo features. Enable only the providers your project uses.

Feature	Time-zone aware types	Naive/local date-time types
chrono	chrono::DateTime<Tz>	chrono::NaiveDateTime
jiff	jiff::Zoned	jiff::civil::DateTime
time	time::OffsetDateTime, time::UtcDateTime	time::PrimitiveDateTime

Time-zone aware types keep a timezone or UTC offset in the value. Naive/local types store only calendar and clock fields, so the caller decides how to interpret them.

Usage

use chrono::prelude::*;

use date_differencer::{add_date_time_diff, date_diff, date_time_diff};

let a = Local.with_ymd_and_hms(2022, 4, 6, 0, 0, 0).unwrap();
let b = Local.with_ymd_and_hms(2023, 6, 9, 1, 0, 0).unwrap();

println!("{:?}", date_diff(a, b));
/*
{
    "years": 1,
    "months": 2,
    "days": 3
}
*/

println!("{:?}", date_time_diff(a, b));
/*
{
    "years": 1,
    "months": 2,
    "days": 3,
    "hours": 1,
    "minutes": 0,
    "seconds": 0,
    "nanoseconds": 0
}
*/

println!("{}", add_date_time_diff(a, &date_time_diff(a, b)).unwrap()); // the same as b

This library can handle leap years and odd/even number of days in a month correctly. The result of following code is a bit confusing but reasonable.

use chrono::prelude::*;

use date_differencer::date_diff;

let a = Local.with_ymd_and_hms(2020, 2, 27, 0, 0, 0).unwrap();
let b = Local.with_ymd_and_hms(2021, 3, 1, 0, 0, 0).unwrap();

println!("{:?}", date_diff(a, b));
/*
{
    "years": 1,
    "months": 0,
    "days": 2
}

Explanation:
    1. 2020-02-27 + 1 year -> 2021-02-27
    2. 2021-02-27 + 2 days -> 2021-03-01 (2021-02 has 28 days)
*/

println!("{:?}", date_diff(b, a));
/*
{
    "years": -1,
    "months": 0,
    "days": -3
}

Explanation:
    1. 2021-03-01 - 1 year -> 2020-03-01
    2. 2020-03-01 - 3 days -> 2020-02-27 (2020-02 has 29 days)
*/

Crates.io

https://crates.io/crates/date-differencer

Documentation

https://docs.rs/date-differencer

License

MIT