This is actually three separate C++11/C++14 libraries: 1. `"date.h"` is a header-only library which builds upon ``. It adds some new `duration` types, and new `time_point` types. It also adds "field" types such as `year_month_day` which is a struct `{year, month, day}`. And it provides convenient means to convert between the "field" types and the `time_point` types. See http://howardhinnant.github.io/date/date.html for more details. Here is the Cppcon 2015 presentation on date.h: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzyGjOm8AKo Here are the Cppcon 2015 slides on date.h: http://schd.ws/hosted_files/cppcon2015/43/hinnant_dates.pdf 2. `"tz.h"` / `"tz.cpp"` are a timezone library built on top of the `"date.h"` library. This timezone library is a complete parser of the IANA timezone database. It provides for an easy way to access all of the data in this database, using the types from `"date.h"` and ``. The IANA database also includes data on leap seconds, and this library provides utilities to compute with that information as well. See http://howardhinnant.github.io/date/tz.html for more details. 3. `"iso_week.h"` is a header-only library built on top of the `"date.h"` library which implements the ISO week date calendar. See http://howardhinnant.github.io/date/iso_week.html for more details. There has been a recent change in the library design. If you are trying to migrate from the previous design, rename `day_point` to `sys_days` everywhere, and that ought to bring the number of errors down to a small roar. `"date.h"` and `"tz.h"` are now proposed for standardization here: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2016/p0355r0.html