bitwalker/timex
Timex is an Elixir library for date and time manipulation, providing a comprehensive API for parsing, formatting, and converting datetime values across various calendar systems and timezones. It supports extensive localization through Gettext, enabling humanized and locale-aware formatting for dates, times, and durations in numerous languages. The system also handles complex timezone resolution, including ambiguous and non-existent times, and offers utilities for calendar calculations and interval management.
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Adequate · 6 August 2026
13k
lines of production code
Elixir
primary language
1
bus factor · 218 authors in all
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measurements over time
How it got here
2013–2015 · Date/time parsing and formatting expansion
This period focused on significantly expanding the Timex library's capabilities for parsing and formatting dates and times. New modules were introduced to handle diverse datetime formats, including humanized strings, strftime patterns, and ISO-8601 variants, alongside robust error handling and locale-aware formatting. The work also included comprehensive test coverage and benchmarking to ensure the reliability of these new features.
18 changes
2016 · comprehensive localization and date/time expansion
This period focused on significantly expanding the library's date and time handling capabilities, introducing new modules for intervals, Julian calendar support, and robust timezone ambiguity resolution. Simultaneously, the project heavily invested in internationalization, adding comprehensive translation files and a localized formatting API for multiple languages including English, Russian, Japanese, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Polish, and Chinese.
24 changes
2017–2020 · internationalization and localization expansion
This period was dedicated to expanding the application's internationalization support by adding comprehensive translation files for numerous new languages, including Indonesian, Danish, Romanian, Dutch, Norwegian, French, Korean, Swedish, Ukrainian, Afrikaans, Turkish, Vietnamese, Czech, Hebrew, Hungarian, Serbian, and Bosnian. Each addition enabled localized formatting for dates, times, and numbers, ensuring consistent user experiences across diverse linguistic regions.
17 changes
2021–2023 · Localization expansion
This period focused on adding comprehensive translation support for six new languages: Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Thai, Croatian, and Khmer. Each update introduced complete localization files covering dates, times, numbers, and relative time expressions to enable full interface translation for these locales.
6 changes
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