From: Jason Dolan (jason_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-28 11:08:37
Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> # bgneal_at_[hidden] / 2006-06-27 15:38:06 -0500:
>>> Thats why I was looking into it this way, I was hoping not to have to
>>> create my own parser. I'm actually kinda of surprised that there isn't
>>> a open source natural language date string parser out there already.
>> GNU date is such a library. In PHP, there is the strtotime() function,
>> which I believe uses GNU date C code to parse stuff like what you
>> list. It accepts a bewildering variety of strings like "now", "last
>> Monday", "10 September 2004", "10 Sep 2004", "+1 week 2 days 3
>> seconds", etc. I can't find a GNU link for you though.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_mono/coreutils.html#Date-input-formats
>
This seems to be EXACTLY what I need. The thing is this document seems
to talk about the GNU date program... which uses the get_date c
function. After some searching I've found 0 documentation on that
function and whatever library it exists in.