Chrono

A natural language date and time parser library for Vala/GLib applications.

Originally developed as part of Planify.

Features

• Parse natural language date/time strings (e.g. "tomorrow", "next Monday", "in 3 days")
• Recurrence rule parsing (e.g. "every week", "every Monday")
• Multi-language support (English, Spanish — more via template)
• Pure Vala/GLib, no external dependencies

Usage

var chrono = new Chrono.Core ();
var result = chrono.parse ("tomorrow at 9am");
if (result != null) {
    print ("Parsed date: %s\n", result.date.to_string ());
}

Building

meson setup build
cd build
ninja
sudo ninja install

Adding a new language

See lib/Locales/TEMPLATE.md for instructions on adding a new locale.

License

GPL-3.0-or-later — see LICENSE