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Are there any libraries for Java that allow you to interpret dates like "Yesterday", "Next Monday", ...

+1  A: 

This guy says no.

palindrom
He was asking about libraries, that article is referring to core Java features.
stevedbrown
I thought your answer was useful.
carrier
+2  A: 

A library like Joda-Time is probably as close as you're gonna get. It doesn't convert strings, but offers much more functionality than the Java default Date class.

Here is a utility class that provides some of the functions you're looking for, but again without fuzzy string conversion.

pianoman