Time
EssentialsDateTime
EssentialsDateTime is a class that both wraps and and extends the functionality of the DateTime struct in .NET, and as such can be used as a replacement for DateTime.
You can get an instance of EssentialsDateTime in a number of ways. Like DateTime, you can use the Now property to get the instance representing the current, local time:
EssentialsDateTime dt = EssentialsDateTime.Now;
In a similar way, you can use EssentialsDateTime.UtcNow and EssentialsDateTime.Today.
Formats
While DateTime has some support for various popular date and time format, it requires some help doing so in order to work properly. EssentialsDateTime works well with unix time, ISO 8601, RFC 822 and RFC 2822 out of the box.
Unix time
@using Skybrud.Essentials.Time
@{
// Write out the current unix timestamp
<pre>@EssentialsDateTime.CurrentUnixTimestamp</pre>
// Get the current date
EssentialsDateTime now = EssentialsDateTime.Now;
// Write out the unix timestamp of "now"
<pre>@now.UnixTimestamp</pre>
// Get the timestamp for the 1st of January 2018 at 00:00 (according to CET)
EssentialsDateTime januarFirst2018 = EssentialsDateTime.FromUnixTimestamp(1514761200);
// Convert the date to a string (should match "2018-01-01 00:00")
<pre>@januarFirst2018.ToLocalTime().ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm")</pre>
}
ISO 8601
@using Skybrud.Essentials.Time
@{
// Get the current date
EssentialsDateTime now = EssentialsDateTime.Now;
// Write out the ISO 8601 string representation of "now"
<pre>@now.ToIso8601</pre>
// Get the timestamp for the 1st of January 2018 at 00:00 (according to CET)
EssentialsDateTime januarFirst2018 = EssentialsDateTime.FromIso8601("2018-01-01T00:00:00+01:00");
// Convert the date to a string (should match "2018-01-01 00:00")
<pre>@januarFirst2018.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm")</pre>
}
RFC 822
@using Skybrud.Essentials.Time
@{
// Get the current date
EssentialsDateTime now = EssentialsDateTime.Now;
// Write out the RFC 822 string representation of "now"
<pre>@now.ToRfc2822</pre>
// Get the timestamp for the 1st of January 2018 at 00:00 (according to CET)
EssentialsDateTime januarFirst2018 = EssentialsDateTime.FromRfc822("Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0100");
// Convert the date to a string (should match "2018-01-01 00:00")
<pre>@januarFirst2018.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm")</pre>
}
RFC 2822
@using Skybrud.Essentials.Time
@{
// Get the current date
EssentialsDateTime now = EssentialsDateTime.Now;
// Write out the RFC 2822 string representation of "now"
<pre>@now.ToRfc2822</pre>
// Get the timestamp for the 1st of January 2018 at 00:00 (according to CET)
EssentialsDateTime januarFirst2018 = EssentialsDateTime.FromRfc2822("Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0100");
// Convert the date to a string (should match "2018-01-01 00:00")
<pre>@januarFirst2018.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm")</pre>
}
Operator overloading
As you may already be using DateTime in your code, Skybrud.Essentials supports converting an instance of DateTime to EssentialsDateTime using operator overloading:
@using Skybrud.Essentials.Time
@{
// Get the current date
EssentialsDateTime now = DateTime.Now;
// Convert the date to a string
<pre>@now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm")</pre>
}