Re: Teach "approxidate" about weekday syntax

Hi,

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted

NOTE! The parsing is strictly sequential, so if you do

	"one day before last thursday"

it will _not_ do what you think it does. It will take the current time, 
subtract one day, and then go back to the thursday before that.

Maybe if you applied the different time units in decreasing size that 
would do the trick?  e.g. months have precedence over weeks, weeks over 
weekdays, weekdays over days, etc.

Or even better: make it relative until you find an absolute reference. 
I.e. "one day" will be 1 * 86400, and if you then parse "before", it
will get negative, then "last thursday" will be the absolute reference.

'f course, "one day before last thursday in september" will be a PITA.

Ciao,
Dscho