Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing

Re:Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing by teh_klev on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @02:47PM (#8396787)

Unfortunately it doesn't parse a Scottish colloquial expression such as "the next again day at 4pm". Which means in two days time at 4pm :)

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Re:Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing by ar7hur on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @02:51PM (#8396805)

I'm very excited about supporting Scottish colloquial expressions! Working on it now, thanks :)

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Re:Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing by AbsoluteDestiny on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @04:08PM (#8397360)

Colloquialisms will pose tricky when they conflict. For example, "3pm next friday" is deciphered by duckling as Friday, 3 October 2014 at 15:00:00 +0000 (UTC) which would not be correct if talking colloquially where I grew up as "next" means not this one but the one after or, more generally, "the one next week not the one this week".

This is probably not the case everywhere, which is why duckling uses next and this interchangeably.

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Re:Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing by AbsoluteDestiny on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @02:53PM (#8396819)

Likewise it doesn't know what a fortnight is.

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Re:Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing by munificent on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @03:14PM (#8396974)

Hell, I don't know what a fortnight is either!

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Re:Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing by samdb on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @03:20PM (#8397029)

From 'fourteen nights' - two weeks

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Re:Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing by Arnavion on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @03:47PM (#8397214)

Another reason to know what fortnight means is that it enables you to use the word "fortnightly" instead of "bi-weekly." With the latter I never know if the speaker meant "twice a week" or "every two weeks" without a follow-up question.

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Re:Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing by francis88 on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @07:32PM (#8398489)

will add it soon. Thanks

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Re:Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing by pacaro on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @08:36PM (#8398772)

It also doesn't understand basic britishisms like "Friday week" or "a week on Friday"

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