A comprehensive Swift toolkit for parsing, validating, manipulating, comparing, and formatting dates, times, and timezones.
SwiftDate is a Swift library that provides a comprehensive toolkit for parsing, validating, manipulating, comparing, and displaying dates, times, and timezones. It solves the complexity of date handling in Swift by offering an intuitive API for common and advanced date operations, supporting multiple platforms including iOS, macOS, Linux, and server-side frameworks.
Swift developers building applications on Apple platforms, Linux, or server-side frameworks like Vapor or Kitura who need robust date and time manipulation capabilities.
Developers choose SwiftDate for its extensive feature set, natural language syntax for date math, support for over 140 languages in formatting, and seamless timezone and locale handling, all backed by strong documentation and testing.
🐔 Toolkit to parse, validate, manipulate, compare and display dates, time & timezones in Swift.
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Recognizes 15+ datetime formats out of the box, including ISO8601, RSS, and HTTP, with support for custom formats, reducing boilerplate code for date ingestion.
Enables intuitive date math with expressions like `2.hours + 5.minutes`, making complex date arithmetic more readable and less error-prone.
Offers date formatting in over 140 languages with colloquial formatters, essential for international applications needing locale-aware displays.
Works seamlessly on Apple platforms, Linux, and server-side frameworks like Vapor, ensuring consistent date handling across diverse Swift environments.
Includes a full markdown guide, Jazzy docs, and interactive playgrounds, backed by 90% code coverage for reliable adoption and debugging.
The extensive API with over 20 comparison functions and multiple abstraction layers (like DateInRegion) can overwhelm developers with simple date needs.
Major updates, such as from SwiftDate 4 to 5, require migration efforts, as highlighted in the upgrade guide, potentially disrupting existing codebases.
Time period functionality relies on the integrated DateTools module, adding an extra dependency that may complicate minimal or lightweight project setups.