From: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: git-like parsing of date strings
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 23:49:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8ilsqjc.fsf@vagabond.tim-landscheidt.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83y1ni89op.fsf@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-27 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-27 14:00 git-like parsing of date strings John Yates
2023-03-27 14:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-27 15:43 ` John Yates
2023-03-27 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-27 23:49 ` Tim Landscheidt [this message]
2023-03-28 11:04 ` John Yates
2023-03-28 13:31 ` Tim Landscheidt
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