scrapinghub / scrapinghub/dateparser

Parse Taiwan dates

Open
#837 2 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

discussion
Dominant language
Python
Stars
2.9k
Forks
520
Avg merge
22h 56m
Merged PRs (30d)
6

Description

Hey hey, Taiwan has a special case which is not currently supported in dateparser 0.7.6

dateparser.parse("101/05/25")
dateparser.parse("101/05/25 08:36 92694")
dateparser.parse("101/05/25 08:36 92694", languages=["twq"])
dateparser.parse("101/05/25 08:36 92694", languages=["zh-Hant"])

Would be nice to have it

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reproducing the four dateparser.parse examples in the issue and trace how date formats and language options are handled. Done means the Taiwan-style dates, including the time and language variants shown, parse successfully.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
localization
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.