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[Luca Invernizzi <invernizzi.l@xxxxxxxxx>]

I had a look in their code:

A good news and a bad one. 
Good news first: it supports localization.
Bad news: only four localizations have been written.
          Every locale is a separate class
          http://code.google.com/p/parsedatetime/source/browse/trunk/parsedatetime/parsedatetime_consts.py?spec=svn85&r=85

          It does have some funny variables like:
self._leapYears = [ 1904, 1908, 1912, 1916, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944,
                            1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988,
                            1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028, 2032,
                            2036, 2040, 2044, 2048, 2052, 2056, 2060, 2064, 2068, 2072, 2076,
                            2080, 2084, 2088, 2092, 2096 ]

I'm generally against "reinventing the wheel", but since we use only a subset of
their features, we could write something more easily localizable.


On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:41:36AM +0100, Bertrand Rousseau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Natural date parsing is a really exciting feature. It would be
> interesting to play with it. However, one major issue I see with this
> feature is localization. Do this library support several locales?
> 
> I think localization-aware natural date parsing is a not an easy
> feature. It could be worth including it in GTG dependancies, then (at
> least if the package is well maintained).
> 
> Bertrand
> 
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Luca Invernizzi
> <invernizzi.l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I found out a nice library in the ubuntu repository to parse times in
> > "human"format.
> >
> > The name is python-parsedatetime, and from their home page
> > (http://code.google.com/p/parsedatetime/):
> > parsedatetime is able to parse, for example, the following:
> > August 25th, 2008
> > 25 Aug 2008
> > Aug 25 5pm
> > 5pm August 25
> > next saturday
> > tomorrow
> > next thursday at 4pm
> > at 4pm
> > eod
> > tomorrow eod
> > eod tuesday
> > eoy
> > eom
> > in 5 minutes
> > 5 minutes from now
> > 5 hours before now
> > 2 hours before noon
> > 2 days from tomorrow
> >
> >
> > I'm not saying that we should add that as dependency, but maybe we could
> > "steal" some code.
> >
> >
> >
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