Re: [Boost-users] [date_time] extract date from string using a list of patterns

From: Jason Dolan (jason_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-28 11:08:37

Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> # bgneal_at_[hidden] / 2006-06-27 15:38:06 -0500:
>>> Thats why I was looking into it this way, I was hoping not to have to
>>> create my own parser.  I'm actually kinda of surprised that there isn't
>>> a open source natural language date string parser out there already.
>> GNU date is such a library. In PHP, there is the strtotime() function,
>> which I believe uses GNU date C code to parse stuff like what you
>> list. It accepts a bewildering variety of strings like "now", "last
>> Monday", "10 September 2004", "10 Sep 2004", "+1 week 2 days 3
>> seconds", etc. I can't find a GNU link for you though.
> 
>     http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_mono/coreutils.html#Date-input-formats
> 

This seems to be EXACTLY what I need.  The thing is this document seems 
to talk about the GNU date program... which uses the get_date c 
function.  After some searching I've found 0 documentation on that 
function and whatever library it exists in.