diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e3e4b0e3a2..1a54ac1750 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -53,6 +53,21 @@ dependencies = [
  "memchr",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "android-tzdata"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e999941b234f3131b00bc13c22d06e8c5ff726d1b6318ac7eb276997bbb4fef0"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "android_system_properties"
+version = "0.1.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "819e7219dbd41043ac279b19830f2efc897156490d7fd6ea916720117ee66311"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "anstream"
 version = "0.6.11"
@@ -417,6 +432,20 @@ version = "1.0.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "baf1de4339761588bc0619e3cbc0120ee582ebb74b53b4efbf79117bd2da40fd"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "chrono"
+version = "0.4.35"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8eaf5903dcbc0a39312feb77df2ff4c76387d591b9fc7b04a238dcf8bb62639a"
+dependencies = [
+ "android-tzdata",
+ "iana-time-zone",
+ "js-sys",
+ "num-traits",
+ "wasm-bindgen",
+ "windows-targets 0.52.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "clang-sys"
 version = "1.7.0"
@@ -984,6 +1013,29 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.52.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "iana-time-zone"
+version = "0.1.60"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e7ffbb5a1b541ea2561f8c41c087286cc091e21e556a4f09a8f6cbf17b69b141"
+dependencies = [
+ "android_system_properties",
+ "core-foundation-sys",
+ "iana-time-zone-haiku",
+ "js-sys",
+ "wasm-bindgen",
+ "windows-core",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "iana-time-zone-haiku"
+version = "0.1.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f31827a206f56af32e590ba56d5d2d085f558508192593743f16b2306495269f"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "idna"
 version = "0.5.0"
@@ -1430,6 +1482,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "atomic-traits",
  "bitflags 2.4.2",
  "bitvec",
+ "chrono",
  "enum-map",
  "heapless",
  "libc",
@@ -1515,6 +1568,7 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "pgrx-tests"
 version = "0.12.0-alpha.1"
 dependencies = [
+ "chrono",
  "clap-cargo",
  "eyre",
  "libc",
@@ -2895,6 +2949,15 @@ version = "0.4.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "712e227841d057c1ee1cd2fb22fa7e5a5461ae8e48fa2ca79ec42cfc1931183f"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "windows-core"
+version = "0.52.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "33ab640c8d7e35bf8ba19b884ba838ceb4fba93a4e8c65a9059d08afcfc683d9"
+dependencies = [
+ "windows-targets 0.52.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "windows-sys"
 version = "0.48.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 02085b7719..6f6cf1a722 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ thiserror = "1"
 unescape = "0.1.0" # for escaped-character-handling
 url = "2.4.1" # the non-existent std::web
 walkdir = "2" # directory recursion
+chrono = "0.4.35" # conversions to chrono data structures
 
 [profile.dev]
 # Only include line tables in debuginfo. This reduces the size of target/ (after
diff --git a/pgrx-tests/Cargo.toml b/pgrx-tests/Cargo.toml
index b8f78abb75..84dae6134c 100644
--- a/pgrx-tests/Cargo.toml
+++ b/pgrx-tests/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ pg_test = [ ]
 proptest = [ "dep:proptest" ]
 cshim = [ "pgrx/cshim" ]
 no-schema-generation = [ "pgrx/no-schema-generation", "pgrx-macros/no-schema-generation" ]
+chrono = [ "dep:chrono", "pgrx/chrono" ]
 
 [package.metadata.docs.rs]
 features = ["pg14", "proptest"]
@@ -64,6 +65,7 @@ serde = "1.0"
 serde_json = "1.0"
 sysinfo = "0.29.10"
 rand = "0.8.5"
+chrono = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 
 [dependencies.pgrx] # Not unified in workspace due to default-features key
 path = "../pgrx"
diff --git a/pgrx-tests/src/tests/chrono_tests.rs b/pgrx-tests/src/tests/chrono_tests.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8dd6942d36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pgrx-tests/src/tests/chrono_tests.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#![cfg(feature = "chrono")]
+use pgrx::prelude::*;
+
+#[cfg(any(test, feature = "pg_test"))]
+#[pgrx::pg_schema]
+mod tests {
+    #[allow(unused_imports)]
+    use crate as pgrx_tests;
+
+    use std::result::Result;
+
+    use pgrx::datum::Date as PgrxDate;
+    use pgrx::pg_test;
+    use pgrx::DateTimeConversionError;
+
+    use chrono::Datelike as _;
+    use chrono::NaiveDate as ChronoNaiveDate;
+
+    // Utility class for errors
+    type DateTimeConversionResult<T> = Result<T, DateTimeConversionError>;
+
+    /// Ensure simple conversion ([`pgrx::Date`] -> [`chrono::NaiveDate`]) works
+    #[pg_test]
+    fn chrono_simple_date_conversion() -> DateTimeConversionResult<()> {
+        let original = PgrxDate::new(1970, 1, 1)?;
+        let d = ChronoNaiveDate::try_from(original)?;
+        assert_eq!(d.year(), original.year());
+        assert_eq!(d.month(), 1);
+        assert_eq!(d.day(), 1);
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
diff --git a/pgrx-tests/src/tests/mod.rs b/pgrx-tests/src/tests/mod.rs
index f433f217c2..b3c12671b8 100644
--- a/pgrx-tests/src/tests/mod.rs
+++ b/pgrx-tests/src/tests/mod.rs
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ mod attributes_tests;
 mod bgworker_tests;
 mod bytea_tests;
 mod cfg_tests;
+#[cfg(feature = "chrono")]
+mod chrono_tests;
 mod composite_type_tests;
 mod datetime_tests;
 mod default_arg_value_tests;
diff --git a/pgrx/Cargo.toml b/pgrx/Cargo.toml
index 8a14757bbb..55451edfff 100644
--- a/pgrx/Cargo.toml
+++ b/pgrx/Cargo.toml
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ pg15 = [ "pgrx-pg-sys/pg15" ]
 pg16 = [ "pgrx-pg-sys/pg16" ]
 no-schema-generation = ["pgrx-macros/no-schema-generation", "pgrx-sql-entity-graph/no-schema-generation"]
 unsafe-postgres = []     # when trying to compile against something that looks like Postgres but claims to be diffent
+chrono = [ "dep:chrono" ]
 
 [package.metadata.docs.rs]
 features = ["pg14", "cshim"]
@@ -59,6 +60,7 @@ enum-map = "2.6.3"
 atomic-traits = "0.3.0" # PgAtomic and shmem init
 bitflags = "2.4.0" # BackgroundWorker
 bitvec = "1.0" # processing array nullbitmaps
+chrono = { workspace = true, optional = true } # Conversions to chrono date time types 
 heapless = "0.8" # shmem and PgLwLock
 libc.workspace = true # FFI type compat
 seahash = "4.1.0" # derive(PostgresHash)
diff --git a/pgrx/src/datum/datetime_support/chrono.rs b/pgrx/src/datum/datetime_support/chrono.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ab90e2d30e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pgrx/src/datum/datetime_support/chrono.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+//! This module contains implementations and functionality that enables [`pgrx`] types (ex. [`pgrx::datum::Date`])
+//! to be converted to [`chrono`] data types (ex. [`chrono::Date`])
+#![cfg(feature = "chrono")]
+
+use std::convert::TryFrom;
+
+use chrono;
+
+use crate::datum::datetime_support::DateTimeConversionError;
+use crate::datum::Date;
+
+impl TryFrom<Date> for chrono::naive::NaiveDate {
+    type Error = DateTimeConversionError;
+
+    fn try_from(d: Date) -> Result<chrono::NaiveDate, DateTimeConversionError> {
+        chrono::NaiveDate::from_ymd_opt(d.year(), d.month().into(), d.day().into())
+            .ok_or_else(|| DateTimeConversionError::InvalidFormat)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/pgrx/src/datum/datetime_support/mod.rs b/pgrx/src/datum/datetime_support/mod.rs
index 69f90b7e6e..f7484c7e73 100644
--- a/pgrx/src/datum/datetime_support/mod.rs
+++ b/pgrx/src/datum/datetime_support/mod.rs
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ use std::marker::PhantomData;
 mod ctor;
 mod ops;
 
+#[cfg(feature = "chrono")]
+mod chrono;
+
 pub use ctor::*;
 
 /// Tags to identify which "part" of a date or time-type value to extract or truncate to