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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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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.

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  • The description of this project is derived from its own commit history, not from its README.
  • The score is its highest published measurement, taken on 6 August 2026 at a pinned commit. It is not a live figure and does not change until the project is measured again.
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  • Scored under rubric rubric-2026.08.19. Score the same commit under that rubric and you get the same number.
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