NAME

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

DESCRIPTION

DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN provides the english specific grammar 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 (be aware that the parser doesn't differentiate between lower/upper case):

Simple

now
today
yesterday
tomorrow
morning
afternoon
evening
noon
midnight
this morning
this afternoon
this evening
yesterday morning
yesterday afternoon
yesterday evening
today morning
today afternoon
today evening
tomorrow morning
tomorrow afternoon
tomorrow evening
march
4th february
november 3rd 
saturday
last wednesday
last june
last month
last year
next friday
next october
next month
next year
this thursday
this month
6 am
5am
5am yesterday
5am today
5am tomorrow
8 pm
4pm
4pm yesterday
4pm today
4pm tomorrow
sunday 11:00
mon 2:35
13:45
may 2002
2nd monday
100th day
6 in the morning
sat 7 in the evening
this second
yesterday at 4:00
last january
last friday at 20:00
tomorrow at 6:45pm
yesterday afternoon
thursday last week

Complex

6 in the morning
4 in the afternoon
9 in the evening
25 seconds ago
10 minutes ago
7 hours ago
40 days ago
2 weeks ago
5 months ago
3 years ago
tomorrow 25 seconds ago
tomorrow 10 minutes ago
tomorrow 7 hours ago
tomorrow 40 day ago
tomorrow 2 weeks ago
tomorrow 5 months ago
tomorrow 3 years ago
yesterday 25 seconds ago
yesterday 10 minutes ago
yesterday 7 hours ago
yesterday 40 days ago
yesterday 2 weeks ago
yesterday 5 months ago
yesterday 3 years ago
fri 3 months ago at 5am
wednesday 1 month ago at 8pm
8 hours before now
8 hours from now
7 days before now
7 days from now
4 weeks before now
4 weeks from now
13 months before now
13 months from now
2 years before now
2 years from now
tuesday 4 in the morning
thursday 2 in the afternoon
monday 6 in the evening
last sunday at 21:45
last week friday
monday last week
2nd day last week
10th day last month
tuesday next week
3rd day next month
10th month next year
in 42 minutes
in 3 hours
in 5 days
wednesday this week
3rd tuesday this november
3 hours before tomorrow
6 hours before yesterday
9 hours after tomorrow
12 hours after yesterday
3 hours before noon
6 hours after noon
9 hours before midnight
12 hours after midnight
yesterday at noon
yesterday at midnight
today at noon
today at midnight
tomorrow at noon
tomorrow at midnight
yesterday at 16:00
today at 6:00
tomorrow at 12
wednesday at 14:30
2nd friday in august
tomorrow 1 year ago
saturday 3 months ago at 5:00pm
4th day last week
3rd wednesday in november
3rd month next year

Timespans

Monday to Friday
1 April to 31 August

Specific Dates

January 11
11 January
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

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