From a5a9805a91502d392cd927f4a368a187145bfd9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Zverovich <victor.zverovich@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 16:10:05 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] First stub at the datetime format parser

---
 include/fmt/time.h | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/fmt/time.h b/include/fmt/time.h
index c5bacfe4..96b07225 100644
--- a/include/fmt/time.h
+++ b/include/fmt/time.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // Formatting library for C++ - time formatting
 //
-// Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016, Victor Zverovich
+// Copyright (c) 2012 - present, Victor Zverovich
 // All rights reserved.
 //
 // For the license information refer to format.h.
@@ -22,7 +22,56 @@ inline null<> localtime_r FMT_NOMACRO(...) { return null<>(); }
 inline null<> localtime_s(...) { return null<>(); }
 inline null<> gmtime_r(...) { return null<>(); }
 inline null<> gmtime_s(...) { return null<>(); }
+
+// Parses a put_time-like format string and invokes handler actions.
+template <bool IS_CONSTEXPR, typename Char, typename Handler>
+FMT_CONSTEXPR void parse_datetime_format(
+    basic_string_view<Char> format_str, Handler &&handler) {
+  auto begin = format_str.data();
+  auto end = begin + format_str.size();
+  auto ptr = begin;
+  while (ptr != end) {
+    auto c = *ptr;
+    if (c == '}') break;
+    if (c != '%') {
+      ++ptr;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (begin != ptr)
+      handler.on_text(begin, ptr);
+    c = *++ptr;
+    begin = ptr;
+    switch (c) {
+    case '%':
+      handler.on_text(ptr, ptr + 1);
+      break;
+    // Day of the week:
+    case 'a':
+      handler.on_abbr_weekday();
+      break;
+    case 'A':
+      handler.on_full_weekday();
+      break;
+    case 'w':
+      handler.on_dec0_weekday();
+      break;
+    case 'u':
+      handler.on_dec1_weekday();
+      break;
+    // Month:
+    case 'b': case 'h':
+      handler.on_abbr_month();
+      break;
+    case 'B':
+      handler.on_full_month();
+      break;
+      // TODO: parse more format specifiers
+    }
+  }
+  if (begin != ptr)
+    handler.on_text(begin, ptr);
 }
+} // namespace internal
 
 // Thread-safe replacement for std::localtime
 inline std::tm localtime(std::time_t time) {