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Thanks for the feedback. The chronic project was actually the original motivation behind natty. I think the chronic project is great, but I believe the gramma

Thanks for the feedback. The chronic project was actually the original motivation behind natty. I think the chronic project is great, but I believe the grammar-based, AST approach is the way to go for long-term maintainability. Implementing relative times has been on my list of things to do (in addition to recurrence.) I created a feature request here: http://github.com/joestelmach/natty/issues#issue/4 http://github.com/joestelmach/natty/issues#issue/4, so feel free to list any time formats you'd like to see implemented. I agree that a generic list of test cases would be nice. Any thoughts on how such a list should be published?

phaylon 16y ago
A list that can be used for interoperability tests would be great, even across languages. For example, Perl has DateTime::Format::Natural that provides this functionality. There's a list of supported inputs at http://search.cpan.org/dist/DateTime-Format-Natural/lib/DateTime/Format/Natural/Lang/EN.pm http://search.cpan.org/dist/DateTime-Format-Natural/lib/Date... . I guess such a list of test-cases could simply be a JSON file containing the input strings plus an output specification. The options for output would only be explicit datetimes, datetimes relative to the now, or timespans.