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NAME

DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN - English language metadata

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 (be aware that the parser doesn't differentiate between lower/upper case):

Simple

 5am
 4pm
 thursday
 november
 friday 13:00
 mon 2:35
 6 in the morning
 sat 7 in the evening
 yesterday
 today
 tomorrow
 this tuesday
 next month
 next mai
 this morning
 this second
 yesterday at 4:00
 last january
 last friday at 20:00
 last week tuesday
 tomorrow at 6:45pm
 afternoon yesterday
 thursday last week

Complex

 25 seconds ago
 10 minutes ago
 7 hours ago
 40 days ago
 2 weeks ago
 5 months ago
 3 years ago
 7 days before now
 7 days from now
 4 weeks before now
 4 weeks from now
 13 months before now
 13 months from now
 2 years before now
 2 years 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

Timespans

 Monday to Friday
 1 April to 31 August

Specific Dates

 January 11
 11 January
 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