"relative" due date entry?

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Migrated from the original issue at https://www.assembla.com/spaces/tracks-tickets/tickets/317

Is there a way that the box for entering a due date could understand things like "tomorrow," "friday," "in 2 weeks," etc.? In other words, it'd be great if I could use the same natural language to talk to Tracks as it uses to talk to me about due dates!

Originally reported by Anonymous on July 7, 2006 at 18:35:33 (+0000)

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On October 10, 2006 at 21:51:13 (+0000), Anonymous commented:

application.rb.patch: patch for using chronic

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On October 10, 2006 at 21:59:04 (+0000), Anonymous commented:

We could use the Chronic http://chronic.rubyforge.org/ library.

I put the chronic library in the lib path and made the changes to application.rb which are in the patch.
I disabled the calendar to test it.

This doesn't work together with the calendar. The calendar always updates the datefield. It is impossible to put in an "invalid" date like 'tomorrow' in it.

Maybe it is possible to stop the Calendar from always fixing the datefield.