Working with date and time

Julia offers full date and time support and arithmetic via theDatesbase module.

In Julia, similar to other languages, handling of dates is done via two types:

• Date: Represents the date without the time (just the year, month, and day)
• DateTime: Represents the date, along with the millisecond precision time

Getting ready

No installation is required for this recipe. Simply start the Julia command line.

 

Note

In the GitHub repository for this recipe, you will find the commands.txt file, which contains the presented sequence of Julia commands.

How to do it...

To see how dates are processed in Julia, please follow the steps as shown:

1. Support for date and time handling is available via the Dates standard module, which needs to be imported: 

julia> usingDates

2. In order to get the current time, use thenowfunction:

julia> ts = Dates.now()
2018-08-15T07:54:18.044
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julia> typeof(ts)
DateTime

This function returns an object ofDateTimetype.

3. In order to create an arbitrary date, simply...