I will have to look into the DateManip library.  I am currently
working on a new module for Ledger-mode that will allow you to
schedule upcoming transactions in a very flexible way (like every
other Friday schedule paycheck, etc).  Then It will put the xact in
your Ledger buffer.  This will be to complement Ledger's auto xact
functionality.  I have the back end mostly worked out but I am not
happy with the syntax for specifying the sheduling.

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Zack Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Harshad RJ <[email protected]> wrote:
>> While numeric dates indeed need to follow some standard, I wanted to request
>> non-numeric dates to make it easy for humans to understand.
>>
>> For example:
>> 2013-Feb-27 is far more easier to parse by a human than 2013-2-27
>
> "easier to parse by human" is subjective - it isn't for me.  An
> alphanumeric sort will also not work properly with this, in addition
> to the locale based problems already raised.
>
> Even better than ISO8601 is RFC3339, which is a subset that only has
> the YYYY-MM-DD format, whereas ISO8601 has things like YYYY-DDD (year,
> then day of year, no month).
>
> If you really want to interpret arbitrary dates, Perl's DateManip is
> the best I know of at dealing with arbitrary human dates - you can
> tell it things like "third Tuesday in July" and it'll return a valid
> date.
>
> Another fun trick - run: `cal 9 1752`
>
> - Zack
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