https://github.com/chaitanyagupta/chronicity.git
git clone 'https://github.com/chaitanyagupta/chronicity.git'
(ql:quickload :chronicity)
[http://chaitanyagupta.com/lisp/chronicity/]
A natural language date and time parser for Common Lisp. by Chaitanya Gupta (mail@chaitanyagupta.com)
Inspired by (and copied verbatim from) from Chronic, the natural language date and time parser for Ruby by Tom Preston-Werner. [http://chronic.rubyforge.org/]
Chronicity depends on the following libraries: * cl-ppcre [http://weitz.de/cl-ppcre] * cl-interpol [http://weitz.de/cl-interpol] * local-time [http://common-lisp.net/project/local-time/] Works with release 1.0.1 and later only, will break with older versions.
Use quicklisp [http://www.quicklisp.org]: (ql:quickload :chronicity)
Or download the latest release here: http://chaitanyagupta.com/lisp/chronicity/downloads/chronicity-latest.tar.gz
Or get the cutting-edge version from github: git clone git://github.com/chaitanyagupta/chronicity.git
Use ASDF to load: (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :chronicity)
To run the test suite: (asdf:oos 'asdf:test-op :chronicity)
Source code for chronicity-test includes lisp-unit (lisp-unit.lisp). This might be cause problems (or surprises) if your image already uses a different version of lisp-unit. [http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/academics/courses/325/readings/lisp-unit.html]
Use CHRONICITY:PARSE to parse date/time strings.
If NOW is not set, “now” is assumed to be this instant. All relative date/time calculations are made with respect to “now”.
(setf chronicity:now (chronicity:make-datetime 2009 3 27 12 34 56)) ⇒ @2009-03-27T12:34:56.000000+05:30
(chronicity:parse “today”) ⇒ @2009-03-27T13:00:00.000000+05:30
(chronicity:parse “tomorrow” :now (chronicity:make-date 2009 1 1)) ⇒ @2009-01-02T00:00:00.000000+05:30
(chronicity:parse “3 days from now”) ⇒ @2009-03-30T12:34:56.000000+05:30
(chronicity:parse “next month”) ⇒ @2009-04-01T00:00:00.000000+05:30
:ENDIAN-PREFERENCE indicates which date format to prefer in case of ambiguity over days and months. :LITTLE indicates the format “dd/mm/yyyy”, :MIDDLE indicates “mm/dd/yyy”. Default is :LITTLE.
(chronicity:parse “1/2/2003”) ⇒ @2003-02-01T00:00:00.000000+05:30
(chronicity:parse “1/2/2003” :endian-preference :middle) ⇒ @2003-01-02T00:00:00.000000+05:30
Default value for :CONTEXT is :FUTURE.
(chronicity:parse “April 1st at 12:30 PM”) ⇒ @2009-04-01T12:30:00.000000+05:30
(chronicity:parse “April 1st at 12:30 PM” :context :past) ⇒ @2008-04-01T12:30:00.000000+05:30
Default for :GUESS is :START.
(chronicity:parse “next month” :guess :middle) ⇒ @2009-04-16T00:00:00.000000+05:30
CHRONICITY:PARSE usually returns a DATETIME object. Its attributes can be accessed using the datetime readers.
(chronicity:parse “next month” :guess :end) ⇒ @2009-04-30T23:59:59.000000+05:30
(values (chronicity:year-of *) (chronicity:month-of *) (chronicity:day-of *) (chronicity:hour-of *) (chronicity:minute-of *) (chronicity:sec-of *)) ⇒ 2009, 4, 30, 23, 59, 59
Passing NIL as the value for :GUESS returns a SPAN, which is a range of datetime values.
(chronicity:parse “next month” :guess nil) ⇒ #<CHRONICITY::SPAN 2009-04-01T00:00:00.000000+05:30…2009-05-01T00:00:00.000000+05:30>
(values (chronicity:span-start *) (chronicity:span-end *) (chronicity:span-end-included-p *)) ⇒ @2009-04-01T00:00:00.000000+05:30, @2009-05-01T00:00:00.000000+05:30, NIL
(Of what Chronicity can parse)
Simple
thursday november summer friday 13:00 mon 2:35 4pm 6 in the morning friday 1pm sat 7 in the evening yesterday today tomorrow this tuesday next month this morning last night this second yesterday at 4:00 last friday at 20:00 last week tuesday tomorrow at 6:45pm afternoon yesterday thursday last week
Complex
3 years ago 5 months before now 7 hours ago 7 days from now 1 week hence in 3 hours 1 year ago tomorrow 3 months ago saturday at 5:00 pm 7 hours before tomorrow at noon 3rd wednesday in november 3rd month next year 3rd thursday this september 4th day last week
Specific Dates
January 5 dec 25 may 27th October 2006 oct 06 jan 3 2010 february 14, 2004 3 jan 2000 17 april 85 5/27/1979 27/5/1979 05/06 1979-05-27 Friday 5 4:00 17:00 0800
Specific Times (many of the above with an added time)
January 5 at 7pm 1979-05-27 05:00:00 etc
Unlike Chronic, Chronicity doesn't support timezones and seasons yet. Support is planned for future releases.
Internally, LOCAL-TIME:TIMESTAMP objects are used to represent time. Any limitation which applies to these objects applies to CHRONICITY:DATETIME objects as well.
Another problem is that parsing ordinals as words is supported except for ‘second’, which is ambiguous with ‘second’, the unit of time. This should be fixed in a future release.