Deprecate date to-record and date to-table

crates/nu-command/src/conversions/into/record.rs

@@ -99,6 +99,22 @@ impl Command for SubCommand {
                     "timezone" => Value::test_string("+02:00"),
                 })),
             },
+            Example {
+                description: "convert date components to table columns",
+                example: "2020-04-12T22:10:57+02:00 | into record | transpose | transpose -r",
+                result: Some(Value::test_list(vec![Value::test_record(record! {
+                    "year" =>     Value::test_int(2020),
+                    "month" =>    Value::test_int(4),
+                    "day" =>      Value::test_int(12),
+                    "hour" =>     Value::test_int(22),
+                    "minute" =>   Value::test_int(10),
+                    "second" =>   Value::test_int(57),
+                    "millisecond" => Value::test_int(0),
+                    "microsecond" => Value::test_int(0),
+                    "nanosecond" => Value::test_int(0),
+                    "timezone" => Value::test_string("+02:00"),
+                })])),
+            },
         ]
     }
 }

crates/nu-command/src/date/to_record.rs

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 use crate::date::utils::parse_date_from_string;
 use chrono::{DateTime, Datelike, FixedOffset, Local, Timelike};
 use nu_engine::command_prelude::*;
+use nu_protocol::{report_parse_warning, ParseWarning};
 
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct SubCommand;
@@ -35,6 +36,18 @@ impl Command for SubCommand {
         call: &Call,
         input: PipelineData,
     ) -> Result<PipelineData, ShellError> {
+
+        let head = call.head;
+        report_parse_warning(
+            &StateWorkingSet::new(&engine_state),
+            &ParseWarning::DeprecatedWarning {
+                old_command: "date to-record".into(),
+                new_suggestion: "see `into record` command examples".into(),
+                span: head,
+                url: "`help into record`".into(),
+            },
+        );
+
         let head = call.head;
         // This doesn't match explicit nulls
         if matches!(input, PipelineData::Empty) {

crates/nu-command/src/date/to_table.rs

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 use crate::date::utils::parse_date_from_string;
 use chrono::{DateTime, Datelike, FixedOffset, Local, Timelike};
 use nu_engine::command_prelude::*;
+use nu_protocol::{report_parse_warning, ParseWarning};
 
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct SubCommand;
@@ -36,6 +37,16 @@ impl Command for SubCommand {
         input: PipelineData,
     ) -> Result<PipelineData, ShellError> {
         let head = call.head;
+        report_parse_warning(
+            &StateWorkingSet::new(&engine_state),
+            &ParseWarning::DeprecatedWarning {
+                old_command: "date to-table".into(),
+                new_suggestion: "see `into record` command examples".into(),
+                span: head,
+                url: "`help into record`".into(),
+            },
+        );
+
         // This doesn't match explicit nulls
         if matches!(input, PipelineData::Empty) {
             return Err(ShellError::PipelineEmpty { dst_span: head });

crates/nu-std/std/dt/mod.nu

@@ -120,8 +120,8 @@ export def datetime-diff [
             }
         }
     }
-    let from_expanded = ($later | date to-timezone utc | date to-record)
+    let from_expanded = ($later | date to-timezone utc | into record)
-    let to_expanded = ($earlier | date to-timezone utc | date to-record)
+    let to_expanded = ($earlier | date to-timezone utc | into record)
 
     mut result = { year: ($from_expanded.year - $to_expanded.year), month: ($from_expanded.month - $to_expanded.month), day:0, hour:0, minute:0, second:0, millisecond:0, microsecond:0, nanosecond:0}