# UTC2K
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UTC2K is a heavily-optimized — and extremely niche — date/time library that **only supports UTC happenings in _this century_**.
For the moments between `2000-01-01 00:00:00..=2099-12-31 23:59:59`, it can run circles around crates like [`chrono`](https://crates.io/crates/chrono) and [`time`](https://crates.io/crates/time), while still being able to:
* Determine "now", at least until the final seconds of 2099;
* Convert to/from Unix timestamps;
* Convert to/from all sorts of different date/time strings;
* Perform checked and saturating addition/subtraction;
* Calculate ordinals, weekdays, leap years, etc.;
## Examples
The library's main export is `Utc2k`, a `Copy`-friendly struct representing a specific UTC datetime.
```rust
use utc2k::{Utc2k, Weekday};
// Instantiation, four ways:
let date = Utc2k::now(); // The current system time.
let date = Utc2k::new(2020, 1, 2, 12, 30, 30); // From parts.
let date = Utc2k::from_unixtime(4_102_444_799); // From a timestamp.
let date = Utc2k::from_ascii(b"2024-10-31 00:00:00") // From a datetime string.
.unwrap();
// What day was Halloween 2024, anyway?
assert_eq!(
date.weekday(),
Weekday::Thursday,
);
// Ordinals are a kind of bird, right?
assert_eq!(
date.ordinal(),
305,
);
// Boss wants an RFC2822 for some reason?
assert_eq!(
date.to_rfc2822(),
"Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000",
);
```
## Optional Crate Features
* `local`: Enables the `Local2k`/`FmtLocal2k` structs. Refer to the documentation for important caveats and limitations.
* `serde`: Enables serialization/deserialization support.
* `sqlx-mysql`: Enables [`sqlx`](https://crates.io/crates/sqlx) (mysql) support for `Utc2k`.
## Installation
Add `utc2k` to your `dependencies` in `Cargo.toml`, like:
```toml
[dependencies]
utc2k = "0.17.*"
```