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Rust crates · category · data Oct 24, 2026
Date and time crates by real downloads
crates.io describes this category as: “Crates to manage the inherent complexity of dealing with the fourth dimension.” Below are the 7 crates in it among the 300 most-downloaded crates, ranked by real downloads (quiet-day baseline) instead of raw count.
Short answerBy steady daily use, rustix leads Date and time with 3,390,892 real downloads a day (widely used and steady). 4 of the 7 have 1,000+ dependents; 0 have shipped nothing in 2+ years. Release spikes barely matter here: the median crate got 0.0% of its downloads within 2 days of a release.
7 crates
| Compare | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rustixWidely used | 3,390,892 | 1,684 | 38d | +3% | 1.3B | |
| timeWidely used | 2,434,189 | 6,747 | 3mo | -2% | 1B | |
| chronoFoundational | 2,369,156 | 38,126 | 5mo | -3% | 91M | |
| time-corePulled in | 2,195,248 | 9 | 4mo | -4% | 745M | |
| time-macrosPulled in | 2,150,923 | 15 | 3mo | -3% | 78M | |
| iana-time-zoneEstablished | 2,009,518 | 109 | 9mo | +0% | 758M | |
| humantimeWidely used | 838,529 | 1,364 | 4mo | -11% | 472M |
Click a column to sort; press + to add a crate to a comparison. Real / day = median downloads on days with no release that day or the day before. Each crate's page shows its verdict and the 4 rules behind it. Why this method · this category on crates.io