moment
Dealing with dates and times should be easy
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
No. While the package has low install friction and a permissive license, it is abandoned (last release 2020-11-27, no commits since 2023-04-24) and explicitly marked as beta-quality. The maintainer recommends arrow or pendulum instead. For new projects, choose an actively maintained alternative; for legacy code already using moment, consider migrating to reduce long-term maintenance risk.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel, but the package is abandoned as of 2020-11-27 with no commits since 2023-04-24.
- The last release was over 5 years ago and the project is marked as beta-quality software.
- The maintainer's own documentation recommends considering arrow or pendulum as alternatives.
License · maintenance · safety
MIT (permissive) — MIT license is permissive and imposes no restrictions on commercial or private use, modification, or distribution, only requiring attribution.
last release 2020-11-27 (2086 days) · last repo commit 2023-04-24 · 741 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 310,094 downloads/mo, #7,748 on PyPI
Alternatives
Verify before relying
pip install moment
import moment
# Parse a natural-language date string
moment.date("2 weeks ago")
# Chain operations and format
moment.now().add(days=5).format("YYYY-M-D")- Whether the package's dependencies (dateparser, pytz, times) are themselves maintained and compatible with current Python versions
- Whether the abandoned status and lack of updates since 2020 create compatibility issues with modern Python or dependency versions
- How well the package handles edge cases in date parsing compared to actively maintained alternatives
What it is and what it does
Moment is a wrapper around Python's datetime that provides a fluent, chainable API for date and time manipulation inspired by Moment.js. It uses dateparser to handle natural-language date strings like "2 weeks ago" or "December 18, 2012", and integrates pytz for timezone handling. You can parse dates from strings, Unix timestamps, or datetime objects; add or subtract time units; replace specific components; and format output using either Moment.js-style or strftime-style format strings.
The package is explicitly marked as beta-quality software and has been abandoned since 2020, with the maintainer recommending arrow or pendulum as alternatives in the installation documentation. It supports Python 2.7 and 3.6–3.7 according to its classifiers, and has received no updates in over five years despite having 741 GitHub stars.
Use it for
- Parse user-friendly date strings like "next Monday" or "3 days ago" without manual format specification
- Chain date operations (add weeks, subtract days, replace hours) in a single readable expression
- Convert between timezones and format dates for display using Moment.js-compatible format strings
- Build date arithmetic into scripts where readability matters more than raw performance
Worth the install?
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No.
While the package has low install friction and a permissive license, it is abandoned (last release 2020-11-27, no commits since 2023-04-24) and explicitly marked as beta-quality. The maintainer recommends arrow or pendulum instead. For new projects, choose an actively maintained alternative; for legacy code already using moment, consider migrating to reduce long-term maintenance risk.
Install
moment on PyPI
Before you install
Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel, but the package is abandoned as of 2020-11-27 with no commits since 2023-04-24. The last release was over 5 years ago and the project is marked as beta-quality software. The maintainer's own documentation recommends considering arrow or pendulum as alternatives.
License in practice
MIT license is permissive and imposes no restrictions on commercial or private use, modification, or distribution, only requiring attribution.
Quickstart
pip install moment
import moment
# Parse a natural-language date string
moment.date("2 weeks ago")
# Chain operations and format
moment.now().add(days=5).format("YYYY-M-D")Verify before relying
- Whether the package's dependencies (dateparser, pytz, times) are themselves maintained and compatible with current Python versions
- Whether the abandoned status and lack of updates since 2020 create compatibility issues with modern Python or dependency versions
- How well the package handles edge cases in date parsing compared to actively maintained alternatives
Package facts
| License | MIT permissive |
| Python support | Not specified |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 3 packagesdateparserpytztimes |
| Maintenance | Abandoned 2,086 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 310,094 / month, #7,748 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Development Status :: 1 - PlanningIntended Audience :: DevelopersLicense :: OSI Approved :: MIT LicenseProgramming Language :: PythonProgramming Language :: Python :: 2.7Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7 |
Evidence: moment-0.12.1-py3-none-any.whl
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