In this program, we will get the current timestamp using the timestamp() method and print the result.
Add Chrono date-time external library to your project
- Create your project using the below command.
$cargo new datetime -bin
- Goto the project folder cd datetime and edit Cargo.toml file.
$datetime>nano Cargo.toml
- Then add dependency in Cargo.toml file
[dependencies]
chrono = "0.4"
- After that, build your project using the below command
$datetime>cargo build
- Then execute your project after modification in src/main.rs source file.
$datetime>cargo run
Program/Source Code:
The source code to get the current timestamp is given below. The given program is compiled and executed on UBUNTU 18.04 successfully.
Output:
Explanation:
In the above program, we imported the "Chrono" library to our project for performing date and time operations. We imported the Chrono library using the below line:
In the main() function, we got the current date and time using the Utc::now() method and converted the date-time into timestamp using the timestamp() method. After that, we printed the timestamp.
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