chronic
A pure Ruby natural language date/time parser that converts human-readable phrases into structured time objects.
What is chronic?
Chronic is a natural language date and time parser written in pure Ruby. It converts human-readable phrases like 'tomorrow at 5pm' or '3 years ago' into structured Ruby Time objects or time spans, solving the problem of interpreting flexible date inputs in applications.
Ruby developers building applications that need to parse user-provided date strings, particularly those working on scheduling tools, calendar applications, or any system requiring flexible date input handling.
Developers choose Chronic for its extensive natural language support, pure Ruby implementation with no dependencies, and configurable parsing options that handle edge cases like time zones and ambiguous date ranges.
Overview
Chronic is a pure Ruby natural language date parser.
Use Cases
Best For
- Parsing user-entered date strings in Ruby web applications
- Building scheduling or calendar tools with natural language input
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