http://simonwillison.net/2018-04-24T16:17:58+00:00Simon Willison2018-04-24T16:17:58+00:002018-04-24T16:17:58+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2018/Apr/24/dateparser/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser">dateparser: python parser for human readable dates</a></strong></p> I’ve used dateutil.parser for this in the past, but dateparser is a major upgrade: it knows how to parse dates in 200 different language locales, can interpret different timezone representations and handles relative dates (“3 months, 1 week and 1 day ago”) as well. <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://github.com/simonw/csvs-to-sqlite/issues/33">csvs-to-sqlite: -d / -dt options for parsing columns as dates</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dates">dates</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a></p>

2010-01-18T17:46:24+00:002010-01-18T17:46:24+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Jan/18/if/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.protocolostomy.com/2010/01/18/if-you-dont-date-your-work-it-sucks/">If You Don&#x27;t Date Your Work, It Sucks.</a></strong></p> I learnt this lesson the hard way, when I realised that I had no idea exactly what year I created my earliest web-facing projects. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/archives">archives</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dates">dates</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/year">year</a></p>

2009-07-06T14:20:12+00:002009-07-06T14:20:12+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jul/6/datetime/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.enricozini.org/2009/debian/using-python-datetime/">Tips on using python&#x27;s datetime module</a></strong></p> Wow. I’ve run in to problems with datetime and timezones before, but I had no idea how intrinsic those problems were to the design of the library. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dates">dates</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/datetime">datetime</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/times">times</a></p>

2009-04-06T14:01:37+00:002009-04-06T14:01:37+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/6/quirksblog/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/04/making_time_saf.html">Making the HTML5 time element safe for historians</a></strong></p> PPK presents a detailed history of dates and calendars and points out that the HTML5 time element is ill prepared to faithfully represent the kind of dates historians are interested in. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/calendars">calendars</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dates">dates</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/datetime">datetime</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/historians">historians</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/history">history</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/html5">html5</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ppk">ppk</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/standards">standards</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/time">time</a></p>

2008-08-25T19:42:39+00:002008-08-25T19:42:39+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Aug/25/longnow/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://www.longnow.org/about/"><p>The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996*... (The Long Now Foundation uses five digit dates, the extra zero is to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years.)</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://www.longnow.org/about/">The Long Now Foundation</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dates">dates</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/decamillenniumbug">decamillenniumbug</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/long-now-foundation">long-now-foundation</a></p>

2008-07-23T16:17:30+00:002008-07-23T16:17:30+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/23/dopplr/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.dopplr.com/2008/07/23/how-dopplr-learns/">How Dopplr learns</a></strong></p> Dopplr uses global and personal trip histories to disambiguate place names, and your friends’ schedules to help disambiguate dates in airline confirmation emails. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dates">dates</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dopplr">dopplr</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/machine-learning">machine-learning</a></p>