Ruby interface to gnu date handling library?

[Booker C. Bense]

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_ First, my apologies. I know I should be able to "just find
this", but my google-fu seems lacking this morning. There is a
library that allows you to use strings like

"last week"
"two hours ago"

to specify dates, I am looking for a ruby interface to that
library. If you remember the name of that library it would be
a great help as well.

_ Booker C. Bense

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[Booker C. Bense]

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I googled for this the other day too, and failed. My application will
run in POSIX environments with the date command, so I just did this:

Time.parse(`date -d "#{date_string}"`)

_ Thanks, that will work just fine. I couldn't even remember what
command used this kind of date string. I guess I picked the wrong
week to cut back on my coffee consumption %-).

_ Booker C. Bense


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[Kaspar Schiess]

"Booker C. Bense" <bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Dec.14.04
@telemark.slac.stanford.edu> wrote in

_ Thanks, that will work just fine. I couldn't even remember what
command used this kind of date string. I guess I picked the wrong
week to cut back on my coffee consumption %-).

Good luck with cutting back on coffee; I actually do the reverse. No wonder
that my googling did have the desired effects...

Download the first and last release of ruby-getdate here:
http://www.tua.ch/ruby/getdate/ruby-getdate.tgz

And read all about it here:
http://www.tua.ch/ruby/current.html

This is really just the tiniest wrapper... And it might not even be up to
date. I feel lazy tonight. You can own the project if you feel inclined to
do so.

best regards, and lots of fun,
kaspar

hand manufactured code - www.tua.ch/ruby

 

[Booker C. Bense]

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"Booker C. Bense" <bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Dec.14.04
@telemark.slac.stanford.edu> wrote in
Download the first and last release of ruby-getdate here:
http://www.tua.ch/ruby/getdate/ruby-getdate.tgz

_ Thanks, turns out I'll need it after all.

_ Booker C. Bense

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