Parsing custom datetime format in Rust using serde

Sun, 24 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Most of the date and time related crates like time or chrono already implement serde traits making date or datetime parsing quite easy. This applies just if the format is standard, but what happens if the format is not standard? Let’s say we want to parse datetime looking like this 2021-10-24T07:48:26.389646Z. There is no timezone information so I decided to try the PrimitiveDateTime type from time crate. I didn’t consider using chrono at the moment because of the RUSTSEC-2020-0159 problem.

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Parsing custom datetime format in Rust using serde