Date() for humans(matthewmueller.github.io)

8 pointsby matthewmueller13 anni fa7 comments

matthewmueller.github.io

http://matthewmueller.github.io/date/

4 comments

This is really nice date detection based on semantics. The one thing I'd add is the ability to use words in lieu of numbers. For example, "in an hour" doesn't work, but "in 1 hour" does. Or, "in two months" doesn't work, but "in 2 months" does. Clearly the logic is there, but I think just adding some basic (0-99) word recognition in there would make it that much better.

And if you really want to get crazy, you could add some support for "fortnight"...if you're bored.

matthewmueller13 anni fa

thanks endersshadow, I'm thinking about adding stuff like that, certainly "a/an" => 1. I was also looking at doing "two" => 2, "ten" => 10, etc. I'd include it as a separate dependency if it's not too big/slow.

bilalq13 anni fa

This looks great. Reminds me a lot of PHP's strtotime function.

hal9k13 anni fa

exactly what I was going to say. I'm always impressed when strtotime correctly parses whatever crazy way to express a date that comes to mind. i.e. "tomorrow - 3 hours"

EliRivers13 anni fa

It doesn't seem to handle "sixteen hundred tomorrow" or any other such "x hundred" times.

themstheones13 anni fa

It freezes if you try to type in "fart o'clock."

matthewmueller13 anni fa

haha, thanks. fixed now. o'clock is ignored nonetheless (maybe that should be added though)