nushell/crates/nu-command
Loïc Riegel 12a1eefe73
Move human date parsing into new command date from-human (#15495)
No related issue.
Decided in nushell's weekly meeting: see [meeting
notes](https://hackmd.io/rA1YecqjRh6I5m8dTq7BHw)

# Description
Converting a date as a human readable string to a datetime:
- currently: using the ``into datetime`` command
- after this change: using ``date from-human`` command

Also moved the ``--list-human`` flag to the new command.

# User-Facing Changes
- Users have to use a new command for parsing human readable datetimes.

Result:
```nushell
~> date from-human --list
╭────┬───────────────────────────────────┬──────────────╮
│  # │ parseable human datetime examples │    result    │
├────┼───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────┤
│  0 │ Today 18:30                       │ in 6 hours   │
│  1 │ 2022-11-07 13:25:30               │ 2 years ago  │
│  2 │ 15:20 Friday                      │ in 6 days    │
│  3 │ This Friday 17:00                 │ in 6 days    │
│  4 │ 13:25, Next Tuesday               │ in 3 days    │
│  5 │ Last Friday at 19:45              │ 16 hours ago │
│  6 │ In 3 days                         │ in 2 days    │
│  7 │ In 2 hours                        │ in 2 hours   │
│  8 │ 10 hours and 5 minutes ago        │ 10 hours ago │
│  9 │ 1 years ago                       │ a year ago   │
│ 10 │ A year ago                        │ a year ago   │
│ 11 │ A month ago                       │ a month ago  │
│ 12 │ A week ago                        │ a week ago   │
│ 13 │ A day ago                         │ a day ago    │
│ 14 │ An hour ago                       │ an hour ago  │
│ 15 │ A minute ago                      │ a minute ago │
│ 16 │ A second ago                      │ now          │
│ 17 │ Now                               │ now          │
╰────┴───────────────────────────────────┴──────────────╯

~> "2 days ago" | date from-human
Thu, 3 Apr 2025 12:03:33 +0200 (2 days ago)

~> "2 days ago" | into datetime
Error: nu:🐚:datetime_parse_error

  × Unable to parse datetime: [2 days ago].
   ╭─[entry #5:1:1]
 1 │ "2 days ago" | into datetime
   · ──────┬─────
   ·       ╰── datetime parsing failed
   ╰────
  help: Examples of supported inputs:
         * "5 pm"
         * "2020/12/4"
         * "2020.12.04 22:10 +2"
         * "2020-04-12 22:10:57 +02:00"
         * "2020-04-12T22:10:57.213231+02:00"
         * "Tue, 1 Jul 2003 10:52:37 +0200"
```

# Tests + Formatting
Fmt, clippy 🆗 
Tests 🆗 

> Note: I was able to reactivate one unit test in the ``into datetime``
command

# After Submitting
Here since the user facing changes are significant, I think we should
communicate in the released notes. Otherwise the automatically generated
documentation should be enough IMO.
2025-04-07 07:44:55 -05:00
..
src Move human date parsing into new command date from-human (#15495) 2025-04-07 07:44:55 -05:00
tests Revert "Fix #15394 for table -e wrapping issue" (#15498) 2025-04-05 09:24:16 -05:00
Cargo.toml Bump to 0.103.1 dev version (#15347) 2025-03-19 00:12:01 -04:00
LICENSE Fix rest of license year ranges (#8727) 2023-04-04 09:03:29 +12:00
README.md Add top-level crate documentation/READMEs (#12907) 2024-07-14 10:10:41 +02:00

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