Re: date.js in Lua?

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

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.