Parsing date and time specifications

[Keith Wansbrough]

Ketil Malde writes:

> Since it's almost Christmas, I'd also like a way to specify things
> like "first Tuesday of every month", or "the day before (last Thursday
> of every month)".  And a GHC target for my Palm Pilot :-)  We could
> build a really cool Cron replacement, and become rich and famous.

Take a look at "remind" for a language that can express all these things, *and* knows the date of Easter.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3529
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/remind/

Not suggesting we copy this directly, of course!!

--KW 8-)

PS: Happy New Year, everyone!
-- 
Keith Wansbrough <kw217@cl.cam.ac.uk>
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/kw217/
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.