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Re: git-like parsing of date strings
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Tim Landscheidt |
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Re: git-like parsing of date strings |
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Mon, 27 Mar 2023 23:49:59 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) |
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