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23rd July 2024 - Link Blog

sqlite-jiff (via) I linked to the brand new Jiff datetime library yesterday. Alex Garcia has already used it for an experimental SQLite extension providing a timezone-aware jiff_duration() function - a useful new capability since SQLite's built in date functions don't handle timezones at all.

select jiff_duration(
  '2024-11-02T01:59:59[America/Los_Angeles]',
  '2024-11-02T02:00:01[America/New_York]',
  'minutes'
) as result; -- returns 179.966

The implementation is 65 lines of Rust.