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Chronic is a pure Ruby natural language date parser.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2012-04-30 · latest 2022-12-27

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  1. …that can handle inputs like “next Thursday”, “Monday at 5p”, etc by running the inputs through https://github.com/mojombo/chronic I like the idea of inputs being able to make sense of as wide of a variety or formats as possible. For number…
    comment by bradgessler · 2022-12-27 · in Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues
  2. Reminds me of the Ruby library chronic https://github.com/mojombo/chronic It's pretty good at natural language interpretation of dates, and the basic "from today" calculations, but cool to also see here natural expressions to parse between…
    comment by jfax · 2021-11-13 · in Dte: A language for expressing and calculating date and time
  3. FYI the ruby equivalent is chronic: https://github.com/mojombo/chronic
    comment by callmeed · 2014-11-24 · in Dateparser: Python parser for human readable dates
  4. If you want to do this in Ruby try Chronic. https://github.com/mojombo/chronic
    comment by sleepyhead · 2014-10-01 · in Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing
  5. Cool, reminds me of this chronic https://github.com/mojombo/chronic I've been looking for a JS version. Perhaps this could be a starting point.
    comment by tarr11 · 2012-04-30 · in Fast Natural Language Date Parser using Lex/Yacc/C