rustHow to format time to string in Rust

Formatting time to string in Rust can be done using the chrono crate. This crate provides a format method which takes a DateTime object and a formatting string as parameters and returns a String object.

Code example:

use chrono::{DateTime, Utc};

let now: DateTime<Utc> = Utc::now();
let formatted_time = now.format("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S").to_string();

Output

formatted_time will contain a string in the format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS

Explanation of code parts:

1. use chrono::{DateTime, Utc}; - This imports the DateTime and Utc types from the chrono crate.
2. let now: DateTime<Utc> = Utc::now(); - This creates a DateTime object with the current time in UTC.
3. let formatted_time = now.format("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S").to_string(); - This uses the format method to format the DateTime object to a string with the specified format and then converts it to a String object.

Helpful links:

1. chrono crate documentation
2. DateTime formatting documentation

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