Can it determine distance from a static date?

[jwnacnud]

For example, if I have a static value, such as my birthday, could I enter something like "halfway through my 18th year"? Thus the distance would be birth_date + 18 years.

[olebedev]

Hey @jwnacnud, thanks for the question.

Not really, because it doesn't return time.Duration but time.Time.

[olebedev]

In order to infer the point in time, the static date should also be present in the parser's context, right? Like,

My BDay is on 12/09/1980 and I am halfway through my 18th year

Otherwise, you would need to return time.Duration from the parser and apply it later on. The latter, is not really possible as I mentioned above. However, the former can be done with a planned merge strategy. But it's not implemented yet. Please feel free to propose a solution for that!

Best regards,
Oleg

[olebedev]

In addition to the above, checked the code once again, I think we can add Duration to the Result object here so after that you will be able to create rules that capture durations like you mention.

[jwnacnud]

That would be awesome. Jeffrey Duncan

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