PyPI Stats
dgilland

zulu

A drop-in replacement for native Python datetimes that embraces UTC.
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
1.0K
Week
6.3K
Month
27.5K
Stars
60
Forks
4
Issues
0
Version
2.0.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
31
Adoption
54
Community
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
898 days ago
Monthly downloads
27,500
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
• At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
27,500
Stars
60
Stars per 1k downloads
2.18
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
• Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
902
Month daily avg
917
Momentum
-1.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT License
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
898 days ago
Total releases
27
Releases/year
2.8
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
• Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
3
Monthly downloads
27,500
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
17
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
75.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 280

Python Versions

3.12
63.7% 167
3.9
11.1% 29
3.11
10.3% 27
3.8
8.8% 23
3.10
6.1% 16

Top Countries

1. US US
278
2. IE IE
2
3. TR TR
2
4. BR BR
1
5. CA CA
1
6. CN CN
1
7. NL NL
1

Dependencies

4
20 optional dependencies

Used By

3

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
July 26, 2016
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
2 years ago
Latest Version
2.0.1
Total Releases
27
Contributors
3
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Derrick Gilland
Python Versions
3 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py3
Keywords
zulu date time datetime timedelta utc parser
Topics
date datetime utc timedelta time python python3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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