Can using Chronic impair your sense of time?
- by Trip
Haha..
I'm using Chronic to parse the time users add in the Calendar. Where the code works and implements the right time, the end result is that, IF a user adds a time, then it has no date, and because it has no date, it will not show in results. Any ideas?
def set_dates
unless self.natural_date.blank? || Chronic.parse(self.natural_date).blank?
# check if we are dealing with a date or a date + time
if time_provided?(self.natural_date)
self.date = nil
self.time = Chronic.parse(self.natural_date)
else
self.date = Chronic.parse(self.natural_date).to_date
self.time = nil
end
end
unless self.natural_end_date.blank? || Chronic.parse(self.natural_end_date).blank?
# check if we are dealing with a date or a date + time
if time_provided?(self.natural_end_date)
self.end_date = nil
self.end_time = Chronic.parse(self.natural_end_date)
else
self.end_date = Chronic.parse(self.natural_end_date).to_date
self.end_time = nil
end
end
end
Edit:
Here is the time_provided? method:
def time_provided?(natural_date_string)
date_span = Chronic.parse(natural_date_string, :guess => false)
(date_span.last - date_span.first).to_i == 1
end
