Intelligent Date & Time parsing

[castironpi at gmail.com]

On Mar 7, 9:23 pm, shak... at gmail.com wrote:
> I figured I might as well share the code I ended up using, in case
> anyone else wants an easy way to get strings to, for instance, SQL-
> storable datetimes.
>
> jake at house:~$ cat test.py
> #!/usr/bin/python
> from datetime import datetime
> import subprocess
>
> def parsedate( date ):
>     p = subprocess.Popen(['date','+%s.%N',"--date=%s" %
> date],stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
>     out = float(p.stdout.read())
>     return "%s" % datetime.fromtimestamp(out)
>
> jake at house:~$ python -i test.py>>> parsedate("today")
>
> '2008-03-07 21:20:31.870489'>>> parsedate("tomorrow")
>
> '2008-03-08 21:20:40.516243'>>> parsedate("next monday")
>
> '2008-03-10 00:00:00'>>> parsedate("10pm last week")
>
> '2008-02-29 22:00:00'>>> parsedate("last tuesday")
>
> '2008-03-04 00:00:00'

I am a GNU newbie.  (I know C &o.)  Can you point me to a place to
find the source for 'date'?