Use this Rust crate to easily parse various time formats to durations.

use dauer::duration;
use std::time::Duration;

let nanoseconds = duration("1 nanosecond");
let milliseconds = duration("2 milliseconds");
let seconds = duration("3 seconds");
let minutes = duration("4 minutes");
let hours = duration("5 hours");
let day = duration("6 days");
let week = duration("7 weeks");
let month = duration("8 months");
let year = duration("9 months");
let real_big_duration = duration("9 years, 8 months, 7 weeks and 6 days");
let real_small_duration = duration("4 minutes 3 seconds, 2 milliseconds and 1 nanosecond");

• The duration function provides straightforward functions to parse durations from a human-readable format, into std::time::Duration instances.
• The time unit-specific functions return unsigned integers representing the amount of said time unit parsed from a human-readable format:
  • years returns the parsed duration as a number of years
  • months returns the parsed duration as a number of months
  • weeks returns the parsed duration as a number of weeks
  • days returns the parsed duration as a number of days
  • hours returns the parsed duration as a number of hours
  • minutes returns the parsed duration as a number of minutes
  • seconds returns the parsed duration as a number of seconds
  • milliseconds returns the parsed duration as a number of years
  • nanoseconds returns the parsed duration as a number of years

Add it as a dependency to your Cargo.toml

[dependencies]
jackdauer = "0.1.0"

Documentation

• @oleiade

"Dauer" is the German word for "duration". When thinking about time, it reminded me of this show called "24", and its main character "Jack Bauer" (which, incidentally also happens to mean "builder" in German). The contraction of both gives "Jack Dauer".

It's 2021, COVID-19 is still raging out there. The last year and a half have been quite gloomy, and I thought I needed (and you probably needed it too; maybe you're not just aware of it) some terrible pun to shed some light on my day-to-day quarantined life.

• This crate wouldn't have been possible without Nom, the parser combinator library
• Inspiration taken from the awesome ms javascript library
• readme.so, a superb tool that helped me build this README

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