Library to work with date expressions in C#?

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What library can I use to calculate dates based on date expressions?

A date expression would be something like:

"+3D" (plus three days)
"-1W" (minus one week)
"-2Y+2D+1M" (minus 2 years, plus one day, plus one month)

Example:

DateTime EstimatedArrivalDate = CalcDate("+3D", DateTime.Now);

Where estimated arrival date would equal the current date plus 3 days.

I have heard about JodaTime and NodaTime but I have not seen anything in them yet that does this. What should I be using to get this functionality in C#?

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