time_machine 0.0.2

Time and date library.

Dart Time Machine

Time Machine is a date and time API for Dart (port of Noda Time). Time Machine is timezone and culture sensitive. Intended targets are DartVM and Dart4Web.

A lot of functionality works at this time, but the public API is still changing a lot. TZDB needs QoL changes that are coming, but are not here yet. This is a preview release. Documentation was also ported, but some things changed for Dart and the documentation will have minor inaccuracies in some places.

Don't use any functions annotated with @internal. I don't intend to keep this annotation, but with part \ part of usage discouraged and no friend semantics, I'm unsure of the direction to go with this.

Todo:

• Port over major classes
• Port over corresponding unit tests
• Dartification of the API
• Non-Gregorian/Julian calendar systems
• Text formatting and Parsing
• Remove XML tags from documentation and format them for pub (human second pass still needed)
• Implement Dart4Web features (default is VM right now)
• maybe: Create simple website with samples (at minimal a samples directory in github)

External data: Timezones (TZDB via Noda Time) and Culture (ICU via BCL) are produced by a C# tool that is not included in this repository.

I'm hoping that JS/VM specific functions will work via conditional imports. For testing atm, VM is default, but full JS support is planned. (fingers crossed that this makes it into Dart 2)

The unit testing framework uses reflection and won't work in Dart4Web 2.0 or later; we'll cross this bridge later.

Future Todo:

• Produce our own TSDB files
• Produce our own Culture files
• Synchronous TSDB timezone provider (priority being raised - it really helps with ZonedDateTime parsing)
• Benchmarking & Optimizing Library for Dart