On 19 March 2012 21:06, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > Well for them you could just adjust the tm struct which is ANSI. @Alexandre Cool I did not know it was in luaposix. Liam