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bttf: A Command-Line Tool for Datetime Arithmetic, Parsing, and Formatting

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burntsushi

4d ago· 7 min readenCode

Summary

A command-line tool called bttf (by BurntSushi) for datetime arithmetic, parsing, formatting, and related operations. The tool is dual-licensed under MIT or the UNLICENSE, and provides user documentation, sub-command help, and comparisons with similar tools. It supports printing the current time, custom formatting, and computing multiple relative times in a single command.

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A command line tool for datetime arithmetic, parsing, formatting and more.
Dual-licensed under MIT or the UNLICENSE.
The user guide should be your first stop for understanding the high level concepts that bttf deals with.
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A command line tool for datetime arithmetic, parsing, formatting and more. - BurntSushi/bttf

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