wttime - A fuzzy time parser

Tired of figuring out what this timestamp means? Done with format strings? Cannot be bothered to care about all the seconds, millis, and jiffies?

You don't have to! wttime is a fuzzy parser that can recover and disambiguate virtually any time specification you can throw at it.

Getting Started

Installation

pip install wttime

Examples

Disambiguate various time specifications:

$ wttime -t UTC 1231231233 1231231233000 1231231233000000 
UTC:     2009-01-06 08:40:33 (+0000)
UTC:     2009-01-06 08:40:33 (+0000)
UTC:     2009-01-06 08:40:33 (+0000)

$ wttime -t UTC 90000000 20200102 2020-01-02 "Nov 15" "Tuesday 10pm"
UTC:     1972-11-07 16:00:00 (+0000)
UTC:     2020-01-02 00:00:00 (+0000)
UTC:     2020-01-02 00:00:00 (+0000)
UTC:     2020-11-15 00:00:00 (+0000)
UTC:     2020-05-26 22:00:00 (+0000)

Flexible output formatting:

$ wttime -l -r --remote-timezone 'America/Chicago' -f '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M' -umy 1231231233000000
UTC:     2009-01-06 08:40
Local:   2009-01-06 09:40
Remote:  2009-01-06 02:40
Seconds: 1231231233
Millis:  1231231233000
Micros:  1231231233000000

$ wttime -nx -ns -y 20200810
1597010400000000

Plays well with others:

$ date | wttime
UTC:     2020-05-24 20:46:40 (+0000)

Help

wttime --help

FAQ

How is this better than dateutil?

wttime can also handle timestamps, disambiguate more formats, and be used from the shell. It does use dateutil under the hood.

What is the deal with 'remote timezone'?

It is (unfortunately) common that companies or systems operate globally in a default timezone that is not UTC. In those cases, using an extra timezone can be convenient.

TODOs

• get more data about format frequency in the wild
• figure out how to get feedback

Development

Add pre-commit hooks:

ln -sf $(pwd)/misc/hooks/pre-commit .git/hooks

Run tests

pytest

Publish to PyPI

rm -r dist
python setup.py sdist
twine upload dist/*

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.