# Natural language date parser

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/natural-language-date-parser/298285>\
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**Created:** [October 15, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/natural-language-date-parser/298285 "2009-10-15T22:04:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/natural-language-date-parser/298285/1 "2009-10-15T22:04:24Z")

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I’d like to convert human entered text strings, such as “next Monday”, “two weeks ago”, “four months from today”, or “one day, 3 hours and five minutes” to the corresponding representational time stamp. Is there already a good way to do this, or will I be writing a custom library to handle this type of ‘data’ conversion?

(Disclaimer: I understand the usability implications. They’re null. :D)

Thanks!