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Description: An online date/time parsing service, based on the 'chronic' ruby gem.
Homepage: http://chronic.heroku.com/
Clone URL: git://github.com/zh/timeapi.git
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timeapi
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An online date/time parsing service, based on the 'chronic' ruby gem.



Overview
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Chronic [ http://chronic.rubyforge.org/ ] is a natural language date/time parser 
written in pure Ruby. TimeAPI just adds an RESTful service around chronic.



Usage
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From a browser visit http://chronic.heroku.com/ and fill the textbox with a 
string containing a natural language date. Examples: 'tomorrow', 'in two hours' etc.

API (just one method) is available on URL http://chronic.heroku.com/pdt/{your_string}
For example:

  http://chronic.heroku.com/pdt/in+two+hours