How to parse time intervals in Ruby?

Question

I have time interval strings like 6:30 am – 2:30 pm or 5:30–11:00 pm (notice the omitted "pm" for the start time here) that I want to parse into Time objects in Ruby. Is there an elegant way to do that or do I have to catch all different cases manually?

Answer 1

http://chronic.rubyforge.org? ;-)

Answer 2

Perhaps using a time library like Chronic could help you?