now-time

Get the current UTC or local time with zero boilerplate.

Overview

now-time gives you the current time in one line. No setup, no config, no boilerplate.

Two dependencies: chrono for the time primitives, thiserror for errors. Everything else is stdlib.

Install

[dependencies]
now-time = "1.0.3"

Usage

Quick functions

use now_time::{now_utc, now_local, unix_timestamp, unix_timestamp_millis};

println!("{}", now_utc());                // 2024-11-15T10:30:00.000000000+00:00
println!("{}", now_local());              // 2024-11-15T18:30:00.000000000+08:00
println!("{}", unix_timestamp());         // 1731664200
println!("{}", unix_timestamp_millis());  // 1731664200123

Full API

use now_time::TimeSnapshot;

let t = TimeSnapshot::now_utc();

println!("{}", t.to_rfc3339());                       // ISO 8601 UTC
println!("{}", t.to_local_rfc3339());                 // ISO 8601 with local offset
println!("{}", t.to_rfc2822());                       // email / HTTP header style
println!("{}", t.unix_seconds());                     // 1731664200
println!("{}", t.unix_millis());                      // 1731664200123
println!("{}", t.format("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"));        // 2024-11-15 10:30:00

Custom format

Uses chrono's strftime specifiers:

Full list: https://docs.rs/chrono/latest/chrono/format/strftime

API Reference

License

MIT. See LICENSE.