How to parse relative time?

Question

This question is the other side of the question asking, \"How do I calculate relative time?\".

Given some human input for a relative time, how can you parse it? By

Answer 1

The ruby folks have attempted to tackle this with a parser called Chronic.

• Chronic RDocs
• Chronic on GitHub

I watched an informative video presentation recently on how the author went about solving this problem.

• Chronic Presentation (San Diego Ruby Brigade)