| Subject: | Minute offsetting not supported (plus some requested features) |
Hello,
I have been working on a project that I wanted to use common English as
input for a future time, and I stumbled upon this module. I really like
it, but there are a few things that I feel could be extended. The
"minutes from now" in any form doesn't seem to be supported, which may
be considered as a bug. The rest that I suggest are just possible
features you could add if you want.
$ re.pl
...
$ use DateTime::Format::Natural;
sub print_times {
my $time_str = shift;
my $parser = DateTime::Format::Natural->new;
my $dt = $parser->parse_datetime($time_str);
return $dt->ymd.' '.$dt->hms."\n";
}
$
$ print_times 'now'
2007-10-19 23:26:50
# An offset of a few minutes from now doesn't seem to be supported at all.
$ print_times 'in 42 minutes' # does not work
2007-10-19 23:27:15
$ print_times '42 minutes from now' # does not work either
2007-10-19 23:27:22
# Here are some features that could possibly be used, and could be
really helpful
$ print_times '5 days from now' #works
2007-10-24 23:27:05
$ print_times 'in 5 days' # does not work
2007-10-19 23:26:58
$ print_times 'in 4 hours' # works
2007-10-20 03:27:37
$ print_times '4 hours from now' # does not work
2007-10-19 23:27:42
$ print_times 'tomorrow at 4pm' # works
2007-10-20 16:00:33
$ print_times '4pm tomorrow' # does not work
2007-10-19 23:59:21
Thanks,
jasonmay