scrapinghub / scrapinghub/dateparser

`dateparser.search.search_dates` is confused by too many time references

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search_dates Type: Bug
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Description

I am on the latest version of the library, the test string is Now arriving today by 10 PM which gets parsed as

[('Now', datetime.datetime(2021, 10, 11, 7, 52, 27, 643936)), ('today', datetime.datetime(2021, 10, 11, 7, 52, 27, 647292)), ('10 PM', datetime.datetime(2021, 10, 11, 22, 0))]

While I would expect the magic to return only one date which is today at 10 pm.

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Start by reproducing the reported dateparser.search.search_dates call with Now arriving today by 10 PM and inspect the search implementation and its existing tests. Done means the input returns only one date, representing today at 10 PM, without separate results for Now or today.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
backend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
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Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
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