# Ako

**Ako** 🕐 is a Rust crate that offers a practical and human-friendly approach to creating, manipulating, formatting and
converting dates, times, and timestamps.

- **Fast**. 🐎 Ako _screams_. The most common algorithms have been
  aggressively researched and refined to maximize performance.

## Why

When talking about time, we often speak with a large amount of implied context. We might say, “I’ll be there tomorrow at
7.” To understand that, we need to interpret this shared understanding of the hidden context. What time zone? Is that in
the morning or the afternoon?

To reliably have reproducible behavior, we need to ensure we are communicating
the correct context when we work with time in programming. Many libraries tend to either default to what the author is
most familiar with and/or leave unimplemented in that context. A common example
is the calendar system. It’s often left out-of-date and time libraries due to the complexity.
While one may implicitly understand when “March 12th” is, and what month March is, that is only on
one calendar (the gregorian calendar), other parts of the world can and often do
use other calendar systems.

**Ako** was written to serve as _the_ date and time library in Rust for as many people,
in as many parts of the world as reasonably possible. Ako goes far and above the scope
of many libraries across many languages.

## License

Licensed under either of

Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.

**Contribution**

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as
defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.