Example / guide for people migrating from time::strftime

[golddranks]

I am in impression that the time crate is deprecated, and one should use the std::time if that's enough, and chrono for more sophisticated functionality. I've been using all the three in my project, but now I'm trying to strip it down to two. The things my migration is hinging on is how to use the formatting features on chrono. The documentation at https://docs.rs/chrono/*/chrono/format/index.html isn't very helpful, as it doesn't contain any concrete examples or even explanation how the formatting / parsing system is supposed to work.

[lifthrasiir]

I've assumed that the landing page clearly shows how to format things (.format("strftime-like string"))---how did you get to that page at the first place? I guess the search engine directly links to that page, in which case I should put the identical information to that page as well.

[golddranks]

Ah, indeed. I found it by a direct link, and expected that a module named format would contain all the docs you need to know about formatting.

Even a short description like "Check the guide about how to format times (link) on the front page." would do.