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time

In late 2019, I requested to take over the unmaintained time crate for Rust. As anyone that has ever worked with time can attest to, this is no small feat. By December, I had released the first major release in over six years. As a foundational crate in the Rust ecosystem, time is used by a sizable portion of the Rust ecosystem.

The revamped time crate includes extensive documentation and nearly 100% test coverage. The only unsafe usage is where the compiler requires it to interact with the operating system; all usages have safety documented. Macros are provided to allow for compile-time verification of certain data, avoiding unnecessary runtime costs.

standback

During (re)development of the time crate, I frequently found myself writing shims to allow the use of recently-stabilized APIs on older compilers. However, it was necessary to use .rem_euclid_shim() instead of .rem_euclid() to avoid name collisions on newer compilers.

As it may be, it's not too difficult to bring code from Rust's standard library to a third-party crate, allowing the use on older compilers. By gating and aliasing to std (or core) as appropriate, it was possible to avoid this. This turns out to be incredibly useful as a standalone crate; it allows others to use newer APIs with near-zero effort: just a single line of code per file for most use cases.