I know [mojombo/chronic] is a big gem, but it smoothes a few things with date parsing. In particular, it has some conveniences for ambiguous dates.
Example: Sen. Meehan's Drupal-views-powered press release page which outputs dates in the ambiguous format of "03 Feb" (issue: #84, my recent commit: dannguyen@91d188e)
A possible solution is that, for each page of press releases, download and parse the first result, extract the full date, then use chronic's :context or :now arguments to disambiguate the dates for the rest of the list of press releases. It's possible to hand-roll a solution, but chronic is probably more stable without being too much of a pain of a dependency.
I know [mojombo/chronic] is a big gem, but it smoothes a few things with date parsing. In particular, it has some conveniences for ambiguous dates.
Example: Sen. Meehan's Drupal-views-powered press release page which outputs dates in the ambiguous format of "03 Feb" (issue: #84, my recent commit: dannguyen@91d188e)
A possible solution is that, for each page of press releases, download and parse the first result, extract the full date, then use chronic's
:contextor:nowarguments to disambiguate the dates for the rest of the list of press releases. It's possible to hand-roll a solution, but chronic is probably more stable without being too much of a pain of a dependency.