Natural language parser for dates (.NET)?

Question

I want to be able to let users enter dates (including recurring dates) using natural language (eg "next friday", "every weekday"). Much like the examples at http://todoist.com/Help/timeInsert

I found this post, but it's a bit old and offered only one solution that I'm not entirely content with. I thought I'd resurrect this question and see: are there any other .NET libraries out there that do this kind of date parsing?

Answer 1

I know it's not an optimal solution but you can also try to port the dateJs library to .net

It handles things like today; tomorrow; July 2008; next friday; last April; 2004.08.07; 6/4/2005; 8:15 PM; 22:30:45; +5years

Answer 2

I don't know of anything that you can use with the framework today that will allow you to do this, but if you are content with playing around with future bits, you can check out Oslo, and make your own textual DSL.

This article shows how to do exactly what you are trying to do:

http://www.infoq.com/articles/natural-language-date-dsl-oslo