NAME
Date::PeriodParser - Turns English descriptions into time periods
SYNOPSIS
use Date::PeriodParser;
my ($midnight, $midday) = parse_period("this morning");
my ($monday_am, $sunday_pm) = parse_period("this week");
... parse_period("sometime last September");
... parse_period("around two weeks ago");
DESCRIPTION
The subroutine "parse_period" attempts to turn the English description
of a time period into a pair of Unix epoch times. As a famous man once
said, "Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying
that it doesn't work". I'm happy with it, though. (or at least, I will
be; this is currently very much a work in progress, and only knows about
recent dates.)
If you enter something it can't parse, it'll return an error code and an
explanation instead of two epoch time values. Error code -1 means "You
entered gibberish", error code -2 means "you entered something
ambiguous", and the explanation will tell you how to disambiguate it.
AUTHOR
Simon Cozens, "
[email protected]"
