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📛 NAME

Date::Manip::Lang::english – English language support.

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command / Phrase	Description
Set date to today	today	📅 The current day (time not altered)
Set date to yesterday	yesterday	📅 One day before today
Set date to tomorrow	tomorrow	📅 One day after today
Two days ago	ereyesterday	📅 Two days before today (archaic)
Two days ahead	overmorrow	📅 Two days after today (archaic)
Current instant	now	🕒 Current date and time
Noon	noon	🕛 12:00 PM
Midnight	midnight	🕛 00:00 AM
Future delta	in 5 days	⏩ 5 days from now
Past delta	5 days ago	⏪ 5 days before now
12‑hour time	5:00 PM	🕔 Time with AM/PM suffix
Full date	January 5, 2024	📅 Month name, day, year
Next occurrence	next Monday	➡️ Upcoming Monday
Recurring	every Monday	🔁 Every Monday
Last occurrence	last Friday	⬅️ Most recent past Friday

📋 SYNOPSIS

This module contains a list of words and expressions supporting the language. It is not intended to be used directly (other Date::Manip modules will load it as needed).

🗣️ LANGUAGE EXPRESSIONS

The following is a list of all language words and expressions used to write times and/or dates.

All strings are case insensitive.

📆 Month names and abbreviations

When writing out the name of the month, several different variations may exist including full names and abbreviations.

Full month names:

• January
• February
• March
• April
• May
• June
• July
• August
• September
• October
• November
• December

Abbreviations:

• Jan, Jan.
• Feb, Feb.
• Mar, Mar.
• Apr, Apr.
• May, May.
• Jun, Jun.
• Jul, Jul.
• Aug, Aug.
• Sep, Sept, Sep., Sept.
• Oct, Oct.
• Nov, Nov.
• Dec, Dec.

📆 Day names and abbreviations

Full day names:

• Monday
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
• Thursday
• Friday
• Saturday
• Sunday

Standard abbreviations:

• Mon, Mon.
• Tue, Tues, Tue., Tues.
• Wed, Wed.
• Thu, Thur, Thu., Thur.
• Fri, Fri.
• Sat, Sat.
• Sun, Sun.

Short (1–2 character) abbreviations:

• M
• T
• W
• Th
• F
• Sa
• S

⏳ Delta field names

These are the names (and abbreviations) for the fields in a delta. There are 7 fields: years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds.

• years, y, yr, year, yrs
• months, m, mon, month, mons
• weeks, w, wk, wks, week
• days, d, day
• hours, h, hr, hrs, hour
• minutes, mn, min, minute, mins
• seconds, s, sec, second, secs

🌅 Morning/afternoon times

Expressions used to designate morning or afternoon when a 12‑hour time is used.

• AM, A.M.
• PM, P.M.

🔁 Each or every

Words that specify every occurrence:

• each
• every

➡️⬅️ Next / Previous / Last occurrence

Next occurrence:

• next
• following

Previous occurrence:

• previous
• last

Last occurrence (final):

• last
• final

⏩⏪ Delta words for going forward / backward in time

Past:

• ago
• past
• in the past
• earlier
• before now

Future:

• in
• later
• future
• in the future
• from now

💼 Business mode

Standard (non‑business) delta words:

• exactly
• approximately

Business delta word:

• business

🔢 Numbers

Numbers may be spelled out in a variety of ways. The following sets correspond to the numbers from 1 to 53:

• 1st, first, one
• 2nd, second, two
• 3rd, third, three
• 4th, fourth, four
• 5th, fifth, five
• 6th, sixth, six
• 7th, seventh, seven
• 8th, eighth, eight
• 9th, ninth, nine
• 10th, tenth, ten
• 11th, eleventh, eleven
• 12th, twelfth, twelve
• 13th, thirteenth, thirteen
• 14th, fourteenth, fourteen
• 15th, fifteenth, fifteen
• 16th, sixteenth, sixteen
• 17th, seventeenth, seventeen
• 18th, eighteenth, eighteen
• 19th, nineteenth, nineteen
• 20th, twentieth, twenty
• 21st, twenty-first, twenty-one
• 22nd, twenty-second, twenty-two
• 23rd, twenty-third, twenty-three
• 24th, twenty-fourth, twenty-four
• 25th, twenty-fifth, twenty-five
• 26th, twenty-sixth, twenty-six
• 27th, twenty-seventh, twenty-seven
• 28th, twenty-eighth, twenty-eight
• 29th, twenty-ninth, twenty-nine
• 30th, thirtieth, thirty
• 31st, thirty-first, thirty-one
• 32nd, thirty-second, thirty-two
• 33rd, thirty-third, thirty-three
• 34th, thirty-fourth, thirty-four
• 35th, thirty-fifth, thirty-five
• 36th, thirty-sixth, thirty-six
• 37th, thirty-seventh, thirty-seven
• 38th, thirty-eighth, thirty-eight
• 39th, thirty-ninth, thirty-nine
• 40th, fortieth, forty
• 41st, forty-first, forty-one
• 42nd, forty-second, forty-two
• 43rd, forty-third, forty-three
• 44th, forty-fourth, forty-four
• 45th, forty-fifth, forty-five
• 46th, forty-sixth, forty-six
• 47th, forty-seventh, forty-seven
• 48th, forty-eighth, forty-eight
• 49th, forty-ninth, forty-nine
• 50th, fiftieth, fifty
• 51st, fifty-first, fifty-one
• 52nd, fifty-second, fifty-two
• 53rd, fifty-third, fifty-three

🗑️ Ignored words

Words that are typically not important when parsing dates.

Introducing a time:

• at

Member of a set:

• of
• in

Specifying a certain date:

• on

📅🕒 Words that set the date, time, or both

Words that set only the date: (delta added to current time; time is not changed)

• ereyesterday → -0:0:0:2:0:0:0
• overmorrow → +0:0:0:2:0:0:0
• today → 0:0:0:0:0:0:0
• tomorrow → +0:0:0:1:0:0:0
• yesterday → -0:0:0:1:0:0:0

Words that set only the time of day:

• midnight → 00:00:00
• noon → 12:00:00

Words that set both date and time:

• now → 0:0:0:0:0:0:0

⏱️ Hour / Minute / Second separators

A colon (:) is always allowed. Additional separators (hour-minute then minute-second) can be defined as Perl regular expressions.

Not defined in this language.

🔢 Fractional second separator

A decimal point (.) is always allowed. Additional separators may be defined.

Not defined in this language.

🐛 KNOWN BUGS

None known.

❓ BUGS AND QUESTIONS

Please refer to the Date::Manip::Problems documentation for information on submitting bug reports or questions to the author.

📚 SEE ALSO

Date::Manip – main module documentation

📜 LICENSE

This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

👤 AUTHOR

Sullivan Beck (sbeck AT cpan.org)

📛 NAME 🚀 Quick Reference 📋 SYNOPSIS 🗣️ LANGUAGE EXPRESSIONS 🐛 KNOWN BUGS ❓ BUGS AND QUESTIONS 📚 SEE ALSO 📜 LICENSE 👤 AUTHOR