From: "Booker C. Bense" <bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Dec.14.04@...>
Date: 2004-12-15T03:12:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby interface to gnu date handling library?

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