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Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by userbinator on Saturday May 14, 2016 @12:20PM (#11696762)
No 4th or February in the string either... yet another example of how unambiguous date parsing in natural languages is very, very difficult. Also an example of why ISO-8601 is awesome.
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Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by themartorana on Saturday May 14, 2016 @01:40PM (#11697209)
Everyone always looks at me funny when I write my dates as `yyyy-mm-dd` - until, that is, I explain that it sorts alphabetically perfectly. That's the moment I can convert people to ISO-8601 converts.
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Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by gengkev on Sunday May 15, 2016 @02:08PM (#11701988)
I write dates that way too, but because mm/dd/yyy is ambiguous in an international context. Sorting correctly is great as well!
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Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by hueving on Saturday May 14, 2016 @12:52PM (#11696955)
April 2nd.
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Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by usmannk on Saturday May 14, 2016 @01:28PM (#11697141)
That's the wrong date though. The person's name is April.
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Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by kuzmin on Saturday May 14, 2016 @02:52PM (#11697523)
Yes, but you can still see how the model (mistakenly) arrives at this date
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Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by petemill on Saturday May 14, 2016 @12:44PM (#11696908)
April = 4

2nd = 2

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