Is there a equivalent on .net of the string parsing of Datejs ( http://www.datejs.com/ ) ?
I wanna do things like
// Convert text into Date
Date.parse(‘today’);
Date.parse(‘t + 5 d’); // today + 5 days
Date.parse(‘next thursday’);
Date.parse(‘February 20th 1973′);
Date.parse(‘Thu, 1 July 2004 22:30:00′);
Tks!
The closest thing in the framwork is DateTime.Parse and DateTime.TryParse. Unfortunately, these will only handle your last 2 cases, but the first 3 will not work.
There is no built-in way to do date manipulations using the standard DateTime parsing methods. However, this answer to a different question provides a utility class which will handle some of your other cases (or something similar), using regular expressions.
As Reed mentions, there is nothing like this built into the .Net framework.
Microsoft JScript is a .Net language that can be used for server-side processing; you might look into seeing if you can integrate Datejs that way.
