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NAME

DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN - English specific regular expressions and variables

DESCRIPTION

DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN provides the english specific regular expressions and variables. This class is loaded if the user either specifies the english language or implicitly.

EXAMPLES

Below are some examples of human readable date/time input in english:

Simple

 thursday
 november
 friday 13:00
 mon 2:35
 4pm
 6 in the morning
 sat 7 in the evening
 yesterday
 today
 tomorrow
 this tuesday
 next month
 this morning
 this second
 yesterday at 4:00
 last friday at 20:00
 last week tuesday
 tomorrow at 6:45pm
 afternoon yesterday
 thursday last week

Complex

 3 years ago
 5 months before now
 7 hours ago
 7 days from now
 in 3 hours
 1 year ago tomorrow
 3 months ago saturday at 5:00pm
 4th day last week
 3rd wednesday in november
 3rd month next year
 7 hours before tomorrow at noon

Specific Dates

 January 5
 dec 25
 may 27th
 October 2006
 february 14, 2004
 Friday
 jan 3 2010
 3 jan 2000
 27/5/1979
 4:00
 17:00

SEE ALSO

DateTime::Format::Natural, DateTime, Date::Calc, http://datetime.perl.org/

AUTHOR

Steven Schubiger <schubiger@cpan.org>

LICENSE

This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html