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## 3.0.0+1 (15/05/2023)

Update `README.md`

## 3.0.0 (14/05/2023)

This release is a complete rework of the library, capitalizing on the real-life experiences gained over the past 2 years.
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## Why Sugar's date-time API over other packages?

* Sugar is able to detect the platform's timezone, `ZonedDateTime.now()`. Other packages such as `timezone` or even Dart's standard library don't. [`DateTime.timeZoneName`](https://api.dart.dev/stable/dart-core/DateTime/timeZoneName.html) returns an ambigious abbrevation that can refer to multiple timezones. See [List of timezone abbreviations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zone_abbreviations).
* Sugar is able to detect the platform's timezone, `ZonedDateTime.now()`. Other packages such as `timezone` or even Dart's standard library don't.
[`DateTime.timeZoneName`](https://api.dart.dev/stable/dart-core/DateTime/timeZoneName.html) returns an ambiguous abbreviation that can refer to multiple timezones.
We provide a TZ database timezone identifier such as `Asia/Singapore`.
See [List of timezone abbreviations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zone_abbreviations).

* Sugar is less hassle to set-up. You don't need to fiddle with assets or asynchronously initialize the package. Simply create a [`ZonedDateTime`](https://pub.dev/documentation/sugar/latest/sugar.time/sugar.time-library.html).
* Sugar is less hassle to set up. You don't need to fiddle with assets or asynchronously initialize the package.
Simply create a [`ZonedDateTime`](https://pub.dev/documentation/sugar/latest/sugar.time/sugar.time-library.html).

* Sugar has (in theory) zero initialization cost & a better memory footprint. Other packages often parse the timezone information from binary files at runtime. We rely on code generation to eliminate IO completely. Other packages often load the entire TZ database into memory. We rely on lazy initialization to load only timezones you use, reducing memory footprint.
* Sugar has (in theory) zero initialization cost & a better memory footprint. Other packages often parse the timezone information from binary files at runtime.
We rely on code generation to eliminate IO completely. Other packages often load the entire TZ database into memory.
We rely on lazy initialization to load only timezones you use, reducing memory footprint.

* Sugar handles DST transitions similary to other packages such as Java, Python & C#. Other packages such as `timezone` don't. This can be an issue when interacting between a back-end written in one of those languages and a front-end written in Dart.
* Sugar handles DST transitions similar to other packages such as Java, Python & C#. Other packages such as `timezone` don't.
This can be an issue when interacting between a back-end written in one of those languages and a front-end written in Dart.

* Sugar offers more than just `ZonedDateTime`. It offers classes such as `LocalTime` & `Period`, and utilities such as retrieving the ordinal week of the year.

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Alternatively, add Sugar as a dependency in your pubspec:
```yaml
dependencies:
sugar: ^ 3.0.0
sugar: ^3.0.0
```
Import the library:
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name: sugar
description: Forus Labs' standard library extension. Utilities for date-times, timezones, collections, monads & more.

version: 3.0.0
version: 3.0.0+1
homepage: https://github.com/forus-labs/cauldron
repository: https://github.com/forus-labs/cauldron
issue_tracker: https://github.com/forus-labs/cauldron/issues
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