Was hoping it would parse "tomorrow's yesterday" as today.
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#22I'm impressed. I thought I'd try it with `next wednesday at 20 to 3 in the afternoon`. It understood! It didn't understand if I used `afternon`. Perhaps as an improvement it could try selecting the most likely word from misspellings.
I don't even understand that. What time period is that meant to specify?
20 to 3 in the afternoon = 2:40 PM
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#23Nice tool! Feedback: I shared it to a friend and his reaction was "bah, it doesn't even work with the example suggested". Meaning, he saw the placeholder and pressed enter.
Yes, the placeholder is misleading in that it looks like it's been entered into the textbox already and I only need to click "Try me!", but actually I need to type it out first.
It could at least detect that the input is empty instead of saying it failed to parse the input!
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#24Was hoping it would parse "tomorrow's yesterday" as today.
"the day before tomorrow" works though
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#25Nice tool! Feedback: I shared it to a friend and his reaction was "bah, it doesn't even work with the example suggested". Meaning, he saw the placeholder and pressed enter.
Yes, the placeholder is misleading in that it looks like it's been entered into the textbox already and I only need to click "Try me!", but actually I need to type it out first. It could at least detect that the input is empty instead of saying it failed to parse the input!
You're right, fixing it now.
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#26Unfortunately it doesn't parse a Scottish colloquial expression such as "the next again day at 4pm". Which means in two days time at 4pm :)
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#27Unfortunately it doesn't parse a Scottish colloquial expression such as "the next again day at 4pm". Which means in two days time at 4pm :)
I'm very excited about supporting Scottish colloquial expressions! Working on it now, thanks :)
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#28Unfortunately it doesn't parse a Scottish colloquial expression such as "the next again day at 4pm". Which means in two days time at 4pm :)
Likewise it doesn't know what a fortnight is.
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#30Wow, we've tried to solve this problem inhouse and our results are much worse than this.
One question, how hard is to detect that kind of expresions inside a random text? Like gmail does for suggesting a calendar appoinment within an email.