ad-si/tu

CLI tool to convert a natural language date/time string to UTC

tu

CLI tool to convert a natural language date/time to UTC.

Installation

cargo install tu

Usage

Usage: tu <natural time/duration>

Examples:
  tu today      -> 2024-03-16T12:56:41.905455Z
  tu tomorrow   -> 2024-03-17T12:56:41.905455Z
  tu 2 day      -> 2024-03-18T12:56:41.905455Z
  tu 9 week     -> 2024-05-18T12:56:41.905455Z
  tu 1 month    -> 2024-04-16T00:00:00Z

  tu 2024-04-10T13:31:46+04:00     -> 2024-04-10T09:31:46Z
  tu Wed, 14 Feb 2024 23:16:09 GMT -> 2024-02-14T23:16:09Z

This is especially useful in combination with other tools like TaskLite:

# Bash
tasklite add "Buy bike" due:$(tu 2 week)

# Fish
tasklite add "Buy bike" due:(tu 2 week)

Related

• when - Timezone CLI tool.
• utcify.ad-si.com - Web tool to convert local-time strings to UTC.
• fuzzy-time - Haskell package for parsing fuzzy time strings.

tu's Issues

Add support for `4pm tomorrow`

Rebuild UTCify UI and sunset the UTCify repo

Support specifying a timezone or the system timezone

Both for input and output

Add support for `14 december 11:20`

Mention implementation at
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/79703/any-free-form-input-methods-for-any-calendars-in-emacs

Write more tests

Include tests from:

• https://github.com/wanasit/chrono
• https://hackage.haskell.org/package/fuzzy-time
• https://github.com/derhuerst/parse-human-relative-time
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/parse-messy-time
• https://github.com/fczbkk/parse-relative-time
• https://github.com/mike182uk/timestring
• https://github.com/Frezc/relative-time-expression
• https://github.com/cmaurer/relative.time.parser
• https://github.com/uutils/parse_datetime