NAME

DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN - English language metadata

DESCRIPTION

DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN provides the english specific regular expressions and variables. This class is loaded if the user either specifies the english language or implicitly.

EXAMPLES

Below are some examples of human readable date/time input in english:

Simple

thursday
november
friday 13:00
mon 2:35
4pm
6 in the morning
sat 7 in the evening
yesterday
today
tomorrow
this tuesday
next month
this morning
this second
yesterday at 4:00
last friday at 20:00
last week tuesday
tomorrow at 6:45pm
afternoon yesterday
thursday last week

Complex

25 seconds ago
10 minutes ago
3 years ago
5 months before now
7 hours ago
7 days from now
in 3 hours
1 year ago tomorrow
3 months ago saturday at 5:00pm
4th day last week
3rd wednesday in november
3rd month next year
7 hours before tomorrow at noon

Specific Dates

January 5
dec 25
may 27th
October 2006
february 14, 2004
Friday
jan 3 2010
3 jan 2000
27/5/1979
4:00
17:00

SEE ALSO

DateTime::Format::Natural, DateTime, Date::Calc, http://datetime.perl.org

AUTHOR

Steven Schubiger <schubiger@cpan.org>

LICENSE

This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html