Greetings wise brothers,

I am looking for ways to do what the user means, even when they are annoyingly vague about it.

Specifically I am looking to write a user friendly program that will accept a vague time specifications such as "now", "today", "5pm Friday" etc from a user and convert it into a timestamp, similar to how the unix at job scheduler does it.

This will be for an interactive program, so the date parser does not need to be perfect, but it would be nice if I could find a library that is contains more parsing logic than I will have time to write myself.

Any links? My google fu is failing me, mainly because I can't work out what search terms to use.

I found the at daemon source code, but the parser uses a ycc grammar that looks to tricky to port to perl in an afternoon!

Thanks.

In reply to How to convert a vague time specfier into a concrete timestamp by chrestomanci

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