The new version of Chrono, the date and time library for Rust, has been released.

This version fixes the dependency issues raised in 0.3.1 (in lieu of this release, 0.3.1 is now yanked as well) while moving towards the more idiomatic API convention. This version was developed in relatively heavy time constraints, but I have managed to include several goodies:

DateTime types can now be serialized to, or deserialized from the integral UNIX timestamp.

types can now be serialized to, or deserialized from the integral UNIX timestamp. DateTime types and std::time::SystemTime can be freely converted back and forth via From .

types and can be freely converted back and forth via . IsoWeek type has been introduced.

type has been introduced. The documentation has been streamlined by removing intermediate implementation modules and accounting for several minor but essential suggestions.