Is there a way to use relative times in a search, i.e., “Last Updated
before 13 hours ago”
I know this doesn’t work, I tried it, but it would be useful to be able
to bookmark a query that showed all tickets that were stale.
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Chris Mason wrote:
Is there a way to use relative times in a search, i.e., “Last Updated
before 13 hours ago”
I know this doesn’t work, I tried it, but it would be useful to be able
to bookmark a query that showed all tickets that were stale.
Dates in the search criteria are parsed using Date::Parse, which
does not understand relative times.
This would, however, be a useful thing. Anyone know of a module
which does Date::Parse type stuff but accepts relative times as
well? I don’t see anything obvious on CPAN…
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At 10:18 AM 19/12/2002 +1000, Phil Homewood wrote:
Chris Mason wrote:
Is there a way to use relative times in a search, i.e., “Last Updated
before 13 hours ago”
I know this doesn’t work, I tried it, but it would be useful to be able
to bookmark a query that showed all tickets that were stale.
This would, however, be a useful thing. Anyone know of a module
which does Date::Parse type stuff but accepts relative times as
well? I don’t see anything obvious on CPAN…
Chris + Phil,
Time::ParseDate should do the trick.
-Brook
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Brook Schofield wrote:
Time::ParseDate should do the trick.
Yum. That looks pretty good.
Time::ParseDate - date parsing both relative and absolute - metacpan.org
… which doesn’t show up in the
Data Type Utilities >> Time
Data Type Utilities >> Date
CPAN listings. Yay CPAN. Thanks Brook. 
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It’s also worth having a look at Simon Cozens "Date::PeriodParser"On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 10:37:12AM +1000, Phil Homewood wrote:
Brook Schofield wrote:
Time::ParseDate should do the trick.
Yum. That looks pretty good.
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Jesse Vincent wrote:
It’s also worth having a look at Simon Cozens “Date::PeriodParser”
Looked at it but it didn’t seem to be such a clean drop-in
replacement. Time::ParseDate does. Working on it now.
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Phil Homewood wrote:
Looked at it but it didn’t seem to be such a clean drop-in
replacement. Time::ParseDate does. Working on it now.
Following trivial patch makes RT::Date use Time::ParseDate.
The args to Time::ParseDate::parsedate should probably be
pulled out into config.pm variables, but aside from that,
it seems to work just fine here.
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time-parsedate-patch (4.31 KB)