add date "library". Thanks @WoodyAtHome!

src/date.zig

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+// From https://gist.github.com/WoodyAtHome/3ef50b17f0fa2860ac52b97af12f8d15
+// Translated from German. We don't need any local time for this use case, and conversion
+// really requires the TZ DB.
+
+const std = @import("std");
+
+pub const DateTime = struct { day: u8, month: u8, year: u16, hour: u8, minute: u8, second: u8 };
+
+pub fn timestamp2DateTime(timestamp: i64) DateTime {
+
+    // aus https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unixzeit
+    const unixtime = @intCast(u64, timestamp);
+    const SECONDS_PER_DAY = 86400; //*  24* 60 * 60 */
+    const DAYS_PER_YEAR = 365; //* Normal year (no leap year) */
+    const DAYS_IN_4_YEARS = 1461; //*   4*365 +   1 */
+    const DAYS_IN_100_YEARS = 36524; //* 100*365 +  25 - 1 */
+    const DAYS_IN_400_YEARS = 146097; //* 400*365 + 100 - 4 + 1 */
+    const DAY_NUMBER_ADJUSTED_1970_01_01 = 719468; //* Day number relates to March 1st */
+
+    var dayN: u64 = DAY_NUMBER_ADJUSTED_1970_01_01 + unixtime / SECONDS_PER_DAY;
+    var seconds_since_midnight: u64 = unixtime % SECONDS_PER_DAY;
+    var temp: u64 = 0;
+
+    // Leap year rules for Gregorian Calendars
+    // Any year divisible by 100 is not a leap year unless also divisible by 400
+    temp = 4 * (dayN + DAYS_IN_100_YEARS + 1) / DAYS_IN_400_YEARS - 1;
+    var year = @intCast(u16, 100 * temp);
+    dayN -= DAYS_IN_100_YEARS * temp + temp / 4;
+
+    // For Julian calendars, each year divisible by 4 is a leap year
+    temp = 4 * (dayN + DAYS_PER_YEAR + 1) / DAYS_IN_4_YEARS - 1;
+    year += @intCast(u16, temp);
+    dayN -= DAYS_PER_YEAR * temp + temp / 4;
+
+    // TagN calculates the days of the year in relation to March 1
+    var month = @intCast(u8, (5 * dayN + 2) / 153);
+    var day = @intCast(u8, dayN - (@intCast(u64, month) * 153 + 2) / 5 + 1);
+    //  153 = 31+30+31+30+31 Days for the 5 months from March through July
+    //  153 = 31+30+31+30+31 Days for the 5 months from August through December
+    //        31+28          Days for January and February (see below)
+    //  +2: Rounding adjustment
+    //  +1: The first day in March is March 1st (not March 0)
+
+    month += 3; // Convert from the day that starts on March 1st, to a human year */
+    if (month > 12) { // months 13 and 14 become 1 (January) und 2 (February) of the next year
+        month -= 12;
+        year += 1;
+    }
+
+    var hours = @intCast(u8, seconds_since_midnight / 3600);
+    var minutes = @intCast(u8, seconds_since_midnight % 3600 / 60);
+    var seconds = @intCast(u8, seconds_since_midnight % 60);
+
+    return DateTime{ .day = day, .month = month, .year = year, .hour = hours, .minute = minutes, .second = seconds };
+}
+
+pub fn printDateTime(dt: DateTime) void {
+    std.log.debug("{:0>4}-{:0>2}-{:0>2}T{:0>2}:{:0>2}:{:0<2}Z", .{
+        dt.year,
+        dt.month,
+        dt.day,
+        dt.hour,
+        dt.minute,
+        dt.second,
+    });
+}
+
+pub fn printNowUtc() void {
+    printDateTime(timestamp2DateTime(std.time.timestamp()));
+}
+
+test "GMT and localtime" {
+    std.testing.log_level = .debug;
+    std.log.debug("\n", .{});
+    printDateTime(timestamp2DateTime(std.time.timestamp()));
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(DateTime{ .year = 2020, .month = 8, .day = 28, .hour = 9, .minute = 32, .second = 27 }, timestamp2DateTime(1598607147));
+
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(DateTime{ .year = 2020, .month = 11, .day = 1, .hour = 5, .minute = 6, .second = 7 }, timestamp2DateTime(1604207167));
+}