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tu

CLI tool to convert a natural language date/time to UTC.

Installation

cargo install tu

Usage

Usage: tu <natural time/duration>

Examples:
  tu today      -> 2024-03-16T12:56:41.905455Z
  tu tomorrow   -> 2024-03-17T12:56:41.905455Z
  tu 2 day      -> 2024-03-18T12:56:41.905455Z
  tu 9 week     -> 2024-05-18T12:56:41.905455Z
  tu 1 month    -> 2024-04-16T00:00:00Z

  tu 2024-04-10T13:31:46+04:00     -> 2024-04-10T09:31:46Z
  tu Wed, 14 Feb 2024 23:16:09 GMT -> 2024-02-14T23:16:09Z

This is especially useful in combination with other tools like TaskLite:

# Bash
tasklite add "Buy bike" due:$(tu 2 week)

# Fish
tasklite add "Buy bike" due:(tu 2 week)

Related

• when - Timezone CLI tool.
• utcify.ad-si.com - Web tool to convert local-time strings to UTC.
• fuzzy-time - Haskell package for parsing fuzzy time strings.