From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Landscheidt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: git-like parsing of date strings Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 23:49:59 +0000 Organization: https://www.tim-landscheidt.de/ Message-ID: <87v8ilsqjc.fsf@vagabond.tim-landscheidt.de> References: <831qla9tmm.fsf@gnu.org> <83y1ni89op.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33158"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:2dM0P20TYAZTCqma3p2m6mNjRyU= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 28 01:50:45 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pgwbt-0008Ml-4V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2023 01:50:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pgwbL-0004VE-Hc; Mon, 27 Mar 2023 19:50:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pgwbJ-0004Uy-P2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2023 19:50:09 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pgwbH-00020n-G0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2023 19:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pgwbG-0007S0-9S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2023 01:50:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:143135 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> > Try the functions in lisp/calendar/parse-time.el. >> parse-time appears to handle only absolute dates. >> I need support for relative dates (e.g. yesterday, 3 days ago, etc). > Your OP never said anything about relative dates. > I don't think something like that exists in Emacs. Relative dates can be parsed by org-read-date, but the syn- tax is not very Git-like. (For the latter, one can always resort to `git rev-parse --since='3 weeks 2 days ago'` and then parse the output.) Tim