Bug#895222: ITP: howardhinnant-date -- date and time library based on the C++11/14/17 <chrono> header

Matthijs Möhlmann

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Apr 8, 2018, 9:40:02 AM4/8/18

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Matthijs Möhlmann <matt...@cacholong.nl>

* Package name : howardhinnant-date
Version : 2.4.1
Upstream Author : Howard Hinnant
* URL : https://howardhinnant.github.io/date/date.html
* License : MIT
Programming Lang: C++
Description : date and time library based on the C++11/14/17 <chrono> header

"date.h" is a header-only library which builds upon <chrono>. It adds some new
duration types, and new time_point types. It also adds "field" types such as
year_month_day which is a struct {year, month, day}. And it provides convenient
means to convert between the "field" types and the time_point types.

tz.h" / "tz.cpp" are a timezone library built on top of the "date.h" library.
This timezone library is a complete parser of the IANA timezone database. It
provides for an easy way to access all of the data in this database, using the
types from "date.h" and <chrono>. The IANA database also includes data on leap
seconds, and this library provides utilities to compute with that information
as well.

"iso_week.h" is a header-only library built on top of the "date.h" library
which implements the ISO week date calendar.

"julian.h" is a header-only library built on top of the "date.h" library which
implements a proleptic Julian calendar which is fully interoperable with
everything above.

"islamic.h" is a header-only library built on top of the "date.h" library which
implements a proleptic Islamic calendar which is fully interoperable with
everything above.

This is a C++ library which implements all relevant parts to date. Including the
timezone data and leap seconds. Further more I intend to package the library
sqlpp11 and the connector libraries.

Martin Quinson

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Aug 30, 2021, 4:50:05 PM8/30/21

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Hello Matthijs,

any progress on this package? It has been a while, so I was wondering
if you managed to get somewhere with this package. If you have
something, it'd be great if you could push your work somewhere so that
we could help you, if needed.

Thanks a lot,
Mt.

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La poésie est la preuve la plus flagrante de l'existence de l'homme.
-- Gabriel García Márquez

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Paul Wise

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Aug 30, 2021, 7:40:04 PM8/30/21

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On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 22:31:37 +0200 Martin Quinson wrote:

> any progress on this package? It has been a while, so I was wondering
> if you managed to get somewhere with this package. If you have
> something, it'd be great if you could push your work somewhere so that
> we could help you, if needed.

Matthijs has retired from Debian so I suggest you take over the ITP:

https://nm.debian.org/person/matthijs/

There are projects who use this and would like to see it packaged:

https://github.com/pistacheio/pistache/issues/228#issuecomment-908512860

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bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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Paul Wise

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Aug 31, 2021, 7:30:04 AM8/31/21

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Control: retitle -1 RFP: howardhinnant-date -- date and time library based on the C++11/14/17 <chrono> header
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On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 07:34:27 +0800 Paul Wise wrote:

> Matthijs has retired from Debian so I suggest you take over the ITP:
>
> https://nm.debian.org/person/matthijs/
>
> There are projects who use this and would like to see it packaged:
>
> https://github.com/pistacheio/pistache/issues/228#issuecomment-908512860

Martin stated on the pistache issue he will not be packaging it (yet)
and Matthijs retired so I am turning this ITP into an RFP for now.

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