Add "chronic" gem to deal with ambiguous dates?

[dannguyen]

I know [mojombo/chronic] is a big gem, but it smoothes a few things with date parsing. In particular, it has some conveniences for ambiguous dates.

Example: Sen. Meehan's Drupal-views-powered press release page which outputs dates in the ambiguous format of "03 Feb" (issue: #84, my recent commit: dannguyen@91d188e)

A possible solution is that, for each page of press releases, download and parse the first result, extract the full date, then use chronic's :context or :now arguments to disambiguate the dates for the rest of the list of press releases. It's possible to hand-roll a solution, but chronic is probably more stable without being too much of a pain of a dependency.

[dwillis]

Yeah, this is a problem with some other sites as well. So far I've loaded each release's URL to get the full date, which is on that page, but this is something worth discussing.

[dwillis]

An update: Meehan's pages can be scraped with the date by using our Drupal scraper.