[enhancement] support human-friendly date parsing (e.g. "next monday at 3pm")
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Description
it would be great if we could create events with human-friendly readable date parsing such as:
next monday at 3pmtoday at 2pmin 1hevery tuesday at noononce every 2 weeks on tuesday at noonevery first monday of the month
not all cases can be handled by dateparser but most i think (no need to run a big LLM on a 32GB memory GPU to parse this i think)
there's also recurrent which probably solves all cases!
recurrent.parse('every first monday of the month at 2pm until December')
'RRULE:BYDAY=1MO;BYHOUR=14;BYMINUTE=0;INTERVAL=1;FREQ=MONTHLY;UNTIL=20231201'
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The issue provides example date expressions and points to dateparser and recurrent, but names no khal files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the event-creation input parser and deciding which expressions and library behavior are in scope. Done should mean the supported examples create the intended events with coverage for the chosen parsing behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100