Recommended setting, minimal search

I have been using chrono for a long time for date parsing, as it was reliable and effective to my needs, but I decided to drop it as it doesn't support Python3.

Moving from chrono to dateparser was not trivial. I couldn't find any mention that adding languages=['en'], a common use case, would be 50 times faster than without it, I think this should be a recommended setting. Using this setting it is now almost as fast as chrono, which is ok for my needs. (I need to try to parse millions of small strings)

I also tried your search_dates, a great method, that can replace my own implementation of trying to parse every substring from the sentence, however, I found that it does not give the minimal result.
For example, "he retired on September 1st, 1969." would find a date "on September 1st, 1969" and not just "September 1st, 1969". Is there a way to add a minimal setting?

Thanks for this amazing repo!

Start at the search_dates entry point and review how the languages=['en'] recommendation is documented. The work is complete when the recommendation is clear and the requested minimal-result behavior has an agreed, verified outcome.