Kronos

Allows you to input datetimes in all kinds of different formats and get both human-readable and iso8601 datetimes in timezones that we care a lot about! Uses the spacetime time library for (most) parsing and transformation.

Input formats

YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss-ZZZZ is best, but who wants to write that every time?

• You can use almost any format you can think of (with a few exceptions: dates always need to specify the 4-digit year, for example)
• It will use your locale's default for ambiguous dates like 02/02/2002
• Things like now or today will work, as well as times with or without timezones
• At the moment, dates like Jan 30, 2019 cannot be parsed: use 2018-01-30 instead

Tell me if something doesn't work, but should!

To-do

• Add support for non-default timezone selector
• Better support for space-separated datetimes like 2018-12-25 9:45pm
• Add a GPS tag to Pauline so we can automatically adjust the tz info
• Copy-on-click for times (maybe just ISO?)
• Add local timezone info
• Travel to random timezones for... testing
• Add seconds?
• Allow time (instead of date or datetime) input
• Allow setting locale
• Replace regexp with datetime parser
• Add zone name/offset to each location name
• General cleanup/style improvements
• Make input into params on the URL so that datetimes can be copied as a URL?