Has anyone come across a script / cl app written in any language that handles the parsing of human-entered dates well? I'd love to be able to parse, for example:
- "3 to 4 weeks"
- "2 - 3 days"
- "3 weeks to 2 months"
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The Chronic gem for ruby will allow you to express dates in a natural form.
Some examples of supported forms (from the documentation)
thursday november summer friday 13:00 mon 2:35 4pm yesterday at 4:00 last friday at 20:00 last week tuesday tomorrow at 6:45pm afternoon yesterday thursday last week 3 years ago 5 months before now 7 hours ago 7 days from now 1 week hence in 3 hours 1 year ago tomorrow
I have not used it so can not comment on its performance.
Steve Weet
2010-08-13 04:19:55
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Ben Doom
2010-08-13 12:54:15