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This library is a wrapper around ICU4X’ datetime formatting for Typst which provides internationalized formatting for dates, times, and timezones.

As the WASM bundle includes all localization data, it’s quite large (about 8 MiB).

See nerixyz.github.io/icu-typ for a full API reference with more examples.

Example

#import "@preview/icu-datetime:0.1.2": fmt-date, fmt-time, fmt-datetime, experimental
// These functions may change at any time
#import experimental: fmt-timezone, fmt-zoned-datetime

#let day = datetime(
  year: 2024,
  month: 5,
  day: 31,
)
#let time = datetime(
  hour: 18,
  minute: 2,
  second: 23,
)
#let dt = datetime(
  year: 2024,
  month: 5,
  day: 31,
  hour: 18,
  minute: 2,
  second: 23,
)
#let tz = (
  offset: "-07",
  iana: "America/Los_Angeles",
  zone-variant: "st", // standard
)

= Dates
#fmt-date(day, locale: "km", length: "full") \
#fmt-date(day, locale: "af", length: "full") \
#fmt-date(day, locale: "za", length: "full") \

= Time
#fmt-time(time, locale: "id", length: "medium") \
#fmt-time(time, locale: "en", length: "medium") \
#fmt-time(time, locale: "ga", length: "medium") \

= Date and Time
#fmt-datetime(dt, locale: "ru", date-length: "full") \
#fmt-datetime(dt, locale: "en-US", date-length: "full") \
#fmt-datetime(dt, locale: "zh-Hans-CN", date-length: "full") \
#fmt-datetime(dt, locale: "ar", date-length: "full") \
#fmt-datetime(dt, locale: "fi", date-length: "full")

= Timezones (experimental)
#fmt-timezone(
  ..tz,
  local-date: datetime.today(),
  format: "specific-non-location-long"
) \
#fmt-timezone(
  ..tz,
  format: (
    iso8601: (
      format: "utc-extended",
      minutes: "required",
      seconds: "optional",
    )
  )
)

= Zoned Datetimes (experimental)
#fmt-zoned-datetime(dt, tz) \
#fmt-zoned-datetime(dt, tz, locale: "lv") \
#fmt-zoned-datetime(dt, tz, locale: "en-CA-u-hc-h24-ca-buddhist")

Example

Locales must be Unicode Locale Identifiers. Use locale-info(locale) to get information on how a locale is parsed. Unicode extensions are supported, so you can, for example, set the hour cycle with hc-h12 or set the calendar with ca-buddhist (e.g. en-CA-u-hc-h24-ca-buddhist).

Documentation

Documentation can be found on nerixyz.github.io/icu-typ.

Using Locally

Download the latest release, unzip it to your local Typst packages, and use #import "@local/icu-datetime:0.1.2".

Building

To build the library, you need to have Rust, just, and wasm-opt installed.

just build
# to deploy the package locally, use `just deploy`

While developing, you can symlink the WASM file into the root of the repository (it’s in the .gitignore):

# Windows (PowerShell)
New-Item icu-datetime.wasm -ItemType SymbolicLink -Value ./target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/debug/icu_typ.wasm
# Unix
ln -s ./target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/debug/icu_typ.wasm icu-datetime.wasm

Use cargo b --target wasm32-unknown-unknown to build in debug mode.