From: Hans Fugal <fugalh@...>
Date: 2004-12-15T00:27:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby interface to gnu date handling library?

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}"`)