Module:Sandbox/RexxS/DateData explained

-- Helper functions for -- This will accept a start_date returning a string that:-- for a valid date, wraps a hidden copy of the date in ISO format in a microformat-- returns start_date-- See Module:Age for other date functions

local p =

-- This parses a date string into a Lua date tablep.parse_date = function(frame) local strdate = mw.text.trim(frame.args[1] or "") local invalid = false local wrd = local num = -- this is a list of indexes of wrd where the value is a number < 32 local yr = -- this is a list of indexes of wrd where the value is a number > 31 local mth = -- this is a list of indexes of wrd where the value is a month

for w in string.gmatch(strdate, "%w+") do -- catch numbers like '27th' local found1, found2 = string.find(w, "%d+") if found1 then w = string.sub(w, found1, found2) end -- now we can store what we found wrd[#wrd+1] = w if tonumber(w) then if tonumber(w) < 32 then num[#num+1] = #wrd else yr[#yr+1] = #wrd end end local s = string.sub(w, 1, 3) -- the first 3 chars of w local f1 = string.find("Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec", s, 1, true) if f1 then mth[#mth+1] = #wrd wrd[#wrd] = (f1 + 3)/4 -- replace Jan with 1, Feb with 2, etc. end end

-- at this point #wrd contains the number of words and numbers and wrd contains the words and numbers -- num is an index of day or numeric month candidates -- yr is an index of year candidates -- mth is an index of alphabetic month candidates

-- this part is for debugging purposes: local msg = #wrd .. " word(s)
" local n=1 local y=1 local m=1 for i = 1, #wrd do msg = msg .. wrd[i] if i

yr[y] then msg = msg .. " <- Year" y = y+1 end if i

num[n] then msg = msg .. " <- Number" n = n+1 end if i

mth[m] then msg = msg .. " <- Month" m = m+1 end msg = msg .. "
" end -- debugging stuff finishes here.

-- let's take out the garbage if not yr[1] then invalid = true end -- no year if not num[1] then invalid = true end -- no day if not mth[1] then -- no alpha month: if not num[2] then invalid = true -- no month else -- two numbers, but: if not yr[1] then invalid = true -- no year else -- two numbers and a year, but: if yr[1] > num[1] then invalid = true end -- year is not first, so date not in yyyy--mm--dd format end end end if invalid then msg = msg .. "invalid date
" msg = msg .. strdate else -- if we have an alpha month, then it's either dmy or mdy. Otherwise it may be yyyy-mm-dd: local ymddate local dt = if mth[1] then -- dmy or mdy work the same now dt.year = wrd[yr[1]] dt.month = wrd[mth[1]] dt.day = wrd[num[1]] else -- yyyymmdd has numeric month before numeric day dt.year = wrd[yr[1]] dt.month = wrd[num[1]] dt.day = wrd[num[2]] end ymddate = os.date("%Y-%m-%d", os.time(dt)) msg = msg .. ymddate .. "
" msg = msg .. '

 (' .. ymddate .. ')' .. strdate end return msgend

-- call with p.FormatDate = function(frame) local langcode = mw.language.getContentLanguage local strdate = mw.text.trim(frame.args[1] or "[phone]T01:15:30Z") local strformat = mw.text.trim(frame.args[2] or "j F Y") return langcode:formatDate(strformat, strdate)end

return p