From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2006-09-08T05:53:58+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Chronic-0.1.0

On 9/7/06, Tom Werner <tom@helmetstohardhats.org> wrote:
> I am pleased to announce the FIRST release of Chronic.
>
>   project: http://rubyforge.org/projects/chronic
>   docs:    http://chronic.rubyforge.org/
>
> This is a preview and feedback solicitation release. I would love to field any comments or questions you may have about the library.
>
> ==Description
>
> Chronic is a natural language date/time parser written in pure Ruby. See below for the wide variety of formats Chronic will parse.

This is really really awesome.  How did you implement stuff like "the
3rd tuesday in January"?  I've been wrestling with that concept for
awhile not in a OS X Dashboard clock I made.
-Mat