NAME

DateTime::Format::Natural::EN - Create machine readable date/time with natural parsing logic

SYNOPSIS

use DateTime::Format::Natural::EN qw(parse_datetime);

$dt = parse_datetime($date_string);

DESCRIPTION

DateTime::Format::Natural::EN exports a function, parse_datetime(), upon request which takes a string with a human readable date/time and creates a machine readable one by applying natural parsing logic.

FUNCTIONS

parse_datetime

Creates a DateTime object from a human readable date/time string.

$dt = parse_datetime($date_string);

$dt = parse_datetime($date_string, { debug => 1 });

The options hash may contain the string 'debug' with a boolean value (0/1). Will output each token that is analysed with a trailing newline.

Returns a DateTime object.

format_datetime

Not implemented yet.

EXAMPLES

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

Simple

thursday
november
friday 13:00
mon 2:35
4pm
6 in the morning
friday 1pm
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

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

SEE ALSO

DateTime, 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