Chronic

Like Chronic, but for Elixir.

Usage

Add it as a dependency to your project:

defpdepsdo[{:chronic,"~> 1.1.2"},]end

Then you can use it wherever you wish:

{:ok,time,offset}=Chronic.parse("tuesday 9am")

The time returned is a Calendar.NaiveDateTime from the calendar package. The offset returned is a time zone offset.

If Chronic encounters a format it doesn't recognise, it will return an error tuple:

{:error,:unknown_format}=Chronic.parse("definitely not a known format, no siree")

If you're not sure what you're going to get back, use a case:

input="some user input goes here"caseChronic.parse(input)do{:ok,time,offset}-># do something with time + offset{:error,:unknown_format}-># present a good error message to the userend