radenkovic / date-suggest

Intelligent date suggestion library based on string input

Date Suggest [WIP]

Because clicking on calendar widgets is so 90s.

Idea

Create a script that returns ranked date suggestions from input string based on clever approximations:

Samples

Input: 7 de 18

Output:

1. December 7th 2018
2. 18th December 2008

Input: ap 20 89

Output:

1. 20th April 1989 ( explained: 1989 is closer year to today's date )
2. 20th April 2089

Input: ju 20 12PM

Output:

1. June 20th, current year, 12.00PM
2. July 20th, current year, 12.00PM

Input: tom 3

Output:

1. One day from now, 3PM
2. One day from now, 3AM

Input: tom 11

Output:

1. One day from now, 11AM (now AM shows first because 11AM is in working hours)
2. One day from now, 11PM

Keywords to cover:

• month names (eg. a => april, j => june, july, d => december, n => november)
• today, tod
• tomorrow, tmrw
• yesterday
• am, pm and regex for 12a, 12p
• time: 12AM, 12.30PM, 12:30AM

(list not in particular order)

Configuration

allow to configure behavior of the ranking engine eg. if birthdate should behave differently, and should show past dates, if event then show future dates, allow timeframes (eg. from-to dates to be suggested only)