Ruby interface to gnu date handling library?

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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 wrote:

_ 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

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}"`)

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In article <cpn0jm$j8j$1@news.xmission.com>,

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Hans Fugal <fugalh@xmission.com> wrote:

Booker C. Bense wrote:

_ 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

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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"Booker C. Bense" <bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Dec.14.04
@telemark.slac.stanford.edu> wrote in news:cpna6b$ohq$1@news.Stanford.EDU:

_ 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:

And read all about it here:

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

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Kaspar Schiess <eule@space.ch> wrote:

"Booker C. Bense" <bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Dec.14.04
@telemark.slac.stanford.edu> wrote in news:cpna6b$ohq$1@news.Stanford.EDU:

Download the first and last release of ruby-getdate here:
tua.ch - und andere Domains günstig und einfach online kaufen auf top-domains.ch

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

_ Booker C. Bense