release notes 0.104.0: datetime handling highlights

blog/2024-01-09-nushell_0_89_0.md

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   - [Fix the test which fails on windows](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/11478)
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blog/2025-04-15-nushell_0_104_0.md

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     for the list of available *containers*
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+## A lot of improvement and bug fixes regarding datetime handling
+
+Creating durations from non integer numbers used to result in a big loss of precision. This bug is now fixed.
+```nushell
+~> 1.5wk
+# before => 1wk 3day
+# now    => 1wk 3day 12hr
+```
+
+Your local timezone is now accurately taken into account when parsing dates:
+```nushell
+~> "2025-01-01" | into datetime  # standard time (winter)
+# => Wed, 1 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100 (3 months ago)
+~> "2025-06-01" | into datetime  # daylight saving time (summer)
+# => Sun, 1 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200 (in 2 months)
+```
+
+It is now possible to construct a datetime and a duration from a record input. If the timezone is not specified, the local is used.
+```nushell
+~> {year: 2025, month: 3, day: 30, hour: 12, minute: 15, second: 59, timezone: '+02:00'} | into datetime
+# => Sun, 30 Mar 2025 12:15:59 +0200 (2 weeks ago)
+~> {week: 10, day: 1, hour: 2, minute: 3, second: 4, millisecond: 5, microsecond: 6, nanosecond: 7, sign: '-'} | into duration
+# => 
+```
+
+Parsing a date as DMY is now possible using the `--format` option:
+```nushell
+~> "25/03/2024" | into datetime --format "%d/%m/%Y"
+# => Mon, 25 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0100 (a year ago)
+```
+
+The next ones are breaking changes.
+```md
+::: warning Breaking change
+See a full overview of the [breaking changes](#breaking-changes)
+:::
+```
+
+The human readable date parsing has been moved to a dedicated command.
+```nushell
+date from-human "next Friday at 6pm"
+# => 2025-04-18T18:00:00+02:00
+```
+
+The ``str join`` command now outputs dates consistently: it is using RFC2822 by default, and RFC3339 for negative dates.
+```nushell
+~> [ 2024-01-01 ] | str join
+# => Mon, 1 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000
+~> [ ('3000 years ago' | date from-human) ] | str join
+# => -0975-04-23T20:57:56.221269600+00:00
+```
+
+Now the ``start_timestamp`` column of the SQLite command history contains datetime instead of strings. 
+```nushell
+~> history | last 2
+# => ╭───┬─────────────────┬─────────────────────┬─────┬─────╮
+# => │ # │ start_timestamp │       command       │ cwd │ ... │
+# => ├───┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────┼─────┤
+# => │ 0 │ a minute ago    │ history             │ ... │ ... │
+# => │ 1 │ 40 seconds ago  │ cd nushell          │ ... │ ... │
+# => ╰───┴─────────────────┴─────────────────────┴─────┴─────╯
+```
+
 # Changes
 
 ## Additions