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by amayne 1828 days ago
This is very cool! I’ve been playing with timefhuman and recurrant plus GPT-3 for really tricky user input.
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Thanks! Never heard of timefhuman, but now I'll look into it.

To parse human-written dates, time.lol currently uses a combination of the JavaScript libraries Day.js [1] and Sugar [2].

If Day.js can't determine a valid date from the given input, then Sugar is invoked to try even harder :) Seems to work well so far, but indeed it falls short with complex input (e.g. "The Tuesday after July 4th").

[1] https://day.js.org [2] https://sugarjs.com

You don’t need GPT-3 for that, you need Perl ;)

https://metacpan.org/dist/Date-Manip/view/lib/Date/Manip/Exa...