On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 00:37, liam mail <liam.list@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 19 March 2012 20:15, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, list! >> >> I'm looking for Lua analogue for this nice JS library: >> http://www.datejs.com/ (bindings to some C library would do) >> >> In particular I'm interested in date.parse() and date.parseExact() methods: >> >> http://code.google.com/p/datejs/wiki/APIDocumentation#parseExact >> http://code.google.com/p/datejs/wiki/APIDocumentation#parse >> >> ...but most other methods look useful too. >> >> Any clues? >> >> Any reusable C libraries for date.parse(), maybe? > strptime[1] or maybe another implementation such as [2] which is BSD How would this help me to parse "yesterday" or "week ago" as a date? > [1] http://linux.die.net/man/3/strptime > [2] http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/time/strptime.c?rev=HEAD https://github.com/agladysh/lua-getdate/blob/master/src/lua-getdate.c Alexander.