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Rust program to get the current date and time based on local time zone

Rust | Date & Time Example: Write a program to get the current date and time based on local time zone.
Last Updated : November 06, 2021

Problem Statement

In this program, we will get the current date and time according to the local time zone using the now() function of Local 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 date and time based on the local time zone is given below. The given program is compiled and executed on UBUNTU 18.04 successfully.

// Rust program to get the current date and time 
// based on local time zone

use chrono::Local;

fn main() {
    let now = Local::now();
    println!("Current DateTime: {}", now);
}

Output

$datetime> cargo run
   Compiling datetime v0.1.0 (/home/arvind/Desktop/rust/datetime)
    Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.29s
     Running `target/debug/datetime`

Current DateTime: 2021-10-22 21:55:23.525405688 -07:00

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: