Chronic (Ruby Date / Time Parser) Screencast

By Peter Cooper — October 11th, 2006 — 2 Comments

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Tom Preston-Werner demonstrates his Chronic "natural date parsing" library for Ruby in this cool, live presentation / screencast. He goes deep into how the library works and how it parses the natural language inputs.

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2 Comment Responses to “Chronic (Ruby Date / Time Parser) Screencast”

#1
taco Says:
October 11th, 2006 at 8:56 pm
Would be schweet if you could do business days:

Chronic.parse("5 business days from now")
or
Chronic.parse("3 weekdays from tuesday")

Is a great library. Thx!
#2
Kevin Olbrich Says:
October 11th, 2006 at 10:23 pm
The latest version of 'ruby-units' will also use 'chronic' to parse dates and times, so you can do stuff like..

'7 days'.from 'next tuesday'