# Natural language processing for date chooser

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [August 7, 2021, 6:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/natural-language-processing-for-date-chooser/199608 "2021-08-07T18:18:57Z")\
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This library might help with implementation: [GitHub - wanasit/chrono: A natural language date parser in Javascript · GitHub](https://github.com/wanasit/chrono)

That said I suspect it would be a challenge to get robust language support for this.

> The current fully supported languages are `en` , `ja` , and `fr` ( `de` and `pt` are partially supported). Other languages from v1 ( `nl` and `zh` ) are under development.

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Also, another UX pattern to consider is automatically replacing date strings in the body of a post with Discourse date/time objects. Sort of like one-boxing but for dates. E.g. if I type “next monday at 2pm” in my post, it automatically converts that to 2021-08-17T18:00:00Z.

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