discord-timestamp

CLI utility to generate discord-formatted timestamps

Usage: discord-timestamp [OPTIONS] <INPUT> [STYLE]

Arguments:
  <INPUT>  Date/time string in the local timezone to convert to a discord timestamp
  [STYLE]  Format style of the output. (Use --help-style for style options.) [env: DT_STYLE=] [default: default]

Options:
  -c, --copy-to-clipboard
          Copy the result to the clipboard when complete
  -f, --datetime-format <DATETIME_FORMAT>
          Format string for parsing datetimes [env: DT_DATETIME_FORMAT=] [default: "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"]
  -d, --date-format <DATE_FORMAT>
          Format string for parsing lone dates (assumes midnight) [env: DT_DATE_FORMAT=] [default: %Y-%m-%d]
  -t, --time-format <TIME_FORMAT>
          Format string for parsing lone times (assumes today) [env: DT_TIME_FORMAT=] [default: %H:%M:%S]
      --help-style
          Shows options (and abbreviations) for the style argument
  -h, --help
          Print help
  -V, --version
          Print version

Provide a date/time (in your system's local timezone) and the formatting style, and the tool will return the discord-compatible format string for that datetime! You can provide either a lone date, a lone time, or a full datetime to convert. If only the date is provided, then the time of midnight is used. If only the time is provided, then the date of today is used.

Installation

Currently, installation is available through cargo:

cargo install discord-timestamp

Examples

Minimal:

> discord-timestamp "2024-11-07 12:43:00"
Formatting: 2024-11-07T12:43:00-05:00
<t:1730965380>

Using alternate styles:

> discord-timestamp "2024-11-07 12:43:00" short-time
Formatting: 2024-11-07T12:43:00-05:00
<t:1730965380:t>

> discord-timestamp "2024-11-07 12:43:00" t
Formatting: 2024-11-07T12:43:00-05:00
<t:1730965380:t>

Copying the result to the clipboard

> discord-timestamp -c "2024-11-07 12:43:00" t
Formatting: 2024-11-07T12:43:00-05:00
<t:1730965380:t> copied to clipboard!

Providing only the date or time:

> discord-timestamp 2024-11-07
Formatting: 2024-11-07T00:00:00-05:00
<t:1730955600>

> discord-timestamp 12:43:00
Formatting: 2024-11-07T12:43:00-05:00
<t:1731001380>

Using alternate date/time formats:

> discord-timestamp --datetime-format "%m/%d/%y %I:%M%p" "11/7/24 2:43pm"
Formatting: 2024-11-07T14:43:00-05:00
<t:1731008580>

> discord-timestamp --time-format %I:%M%p 2:43pm
Formatting: 2024-11-07T14:43:00-05:00
<t:1731008580>

Date and time formats

When parsing dates and times, the system will first attempt to parse a full datetime (using the provided datetime-format), then attempt to parse just a date (using the provided date-format), then finally attempt to parse just a time (using the provided time-format). If all three fail, then an error is returned.

The date and time formats use a syntax based on strftime. You can find details on all the available escape sequences here.

Additionally, these formats can be configured by the environment variables listed in the help documentation above:

• datetime-format: DT_DATETIME_FORMAT
• date-format: DT_DATE_FORMAT
• time-format: DT_TIME_FORMAT