Fuzzy date parsing with Java

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Are there any libraries for Java that allow you to interpret dates like "Yesterday", "Next Monday", ...

Do you mean the string literals, or just something that makes it easy to walk a date back a day or figure out the date of the first Monday in the future, but not providing the text parsing of a literal "Next Monday?" — Yishai, Jul 27 '09 at 15:23

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 25 '21 at 17:39

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You are looking for Natty. Feel free to fork it and modify its grammar.

edited Mar 25 '21 at 17:39

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Might be worth noting that as of March 2021 (this comment), Natty has not been updated for 4 years. https://github.com/joestelmach/natty – Michael Mior Mar 25 '21 at 17:49

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 26 '15 at 11:41

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Su-time from stanford is your (and my) friend.

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 27 '09 at 15:33

A library like Joda-Time is probably as close as you're gonna get. It doesn't convert strings, but offers much more functionality than the Java default Date class.

Here is a utility class that provides some of the functions you're looking for, but again without fuzzy string conversion.

Fuzzy date parsing with Java

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