Dates¶

The date type in Kiwi is used to represent a date and a time.

There is no Date literal syntax in Kiwi, but the language provides methods to access and use the type.

For documentation on date builtins, take a look at the date builtins.

Using the standard library call time::now() or special builtin __time_now__().

dt = time::now()     # using the `time` package from the Kiwi Standard Library.
dt = __time_now__()  # using the special builtin `__time_now__()`

Use the to_date() builtin to convert a string to a date.

dt = "2021-01-01".to_date()

println dt # prints: 1/1/2021 12:00:00 AM

Use the to_string() builtin to convert a date to a string. Optionally, you can specify a format.

dt = "2021-01-02".to_date().to_string("MM/dd/yyyy")
println dt # prints: 01/02/2021