Dealing with Messy Dates

Question

I hope you didn\'t think I was asking for relationship advice.

Infrequently, I have to offer survey respondents the ability to specify when an event occurred. What resu

Answer 1

The wolfram alpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/ is definitely a great tool to do that work.

At least, it successfully interpret some messy input in your data. It would be worth trying.

I'm not sure if the site is suitable for extremely large dataset, but if the data is not so large, it will be useful.

It is not difficult to write a automatized script that send query, get data and parse it, although I'm not sure if the site allows such usage.