From 8138e5ccf25c14fe98236ebf9775fab3c41c1547 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mitteneer <swebbguy@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 23:03:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Create dateFmt function

It's easier to keep the date as an epoch in PostgreSQL to do comparisons, but I always want to show it to the user as a formatted date
---
 src/date_fmt.zig | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/date_fmt.zig

diff --git a/src/date_fmt.zig b/src/date_fmt.zig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..603a209
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/date_fmt.zig
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+const std = @import("std");
+const zeit = @import("zeit");
+
+pub fn dateFmt(allocator: std.mem.Allocator, epoch: i64) ![]const u8 {
+    var date = std.ArrayList(u8).init(allocator);
+    try (try zeit.instant(.{ .source = .{ .unix_timestamp = @divFloor(epoch, 1_000) } })).time().strftime(date.writer(), "%d %b %Y, %H:%M");
+    return date.items;
+}