Method Calendar.YMD.dwim_day()

Method dwim_day

Day dwim_day(string date)
Day dwim_day(string date, TimeRange context)

Description

Tries a number of different formats on the given date (in order):

parse format	as in
"%y-%M-%D (%M) -W%W-%e (%e)"	"2000-03-20 (Mar) -W12-1 (Mon)"
"%y-%M-%D"	"2000-03-20", "00-03-20"
"%M%/%D/%y"	"3/20/2000"
"%D%*[ /]%M%*[ /-,]%y"	"20/3/2000" "20 mar 2000" "20/3 -00"
"%e%*[ ]%D%*[ /]%M%*[ /-,]%y"	"Mon 20 Mar 2000" "Mon 20/3 2000"
"-%y%*[ /]%D%*[ /]%M"	"-00 20/3" "-00 20 mar"
"-%y%*[ /]%M%*[ /]%D"	"-00 3/20" "-00 march 20"
"%y%*[ /]%D%*[ /]%M"	"00 20 mar" "2000 20/3"
"%y%*[ /]%M%*[ /]%D"	"2000 march 20"
"%D%.%M.%y"	"20.3.2000"
"%D%*[ -/]%M"	"20/3" "20 mar" "20-03"
"%M%*[ -/]%D"	"3/20" "march 20"
"%M-%D-%y"	"03-20-2000"
"%D-%M-%y"	"20-03-2000"
"%e%*[- /]%D%*[- /]%M"	"mon 20 march"
"%e%*[- /]%M%*[- /]%D"	"mon/march/20"
"%e%*[ -/wv]%W%*[ -/]%y"	"mon w12 -00" "1 w12 2000"
"%e%*[ -/wv]%W"	"mon w12"
"%d"	"20000320", "000320"
"today"	"today"
"last %e"	"last monday"
"next %e"	"next monday"

Note

Casts exception if it fails to dwim out a day. "dwim" means do-what-i-mean.