TimeAPI is an API to get dates/times from natural language queries based on Chronic.

Examples

• /utc/now → Current UTC time
• /pdt/in+two+hours → Time two hours from now in PDT
• /pdt/next+monday → Datetime for next Monday in PDT
• /pdt/this+friday+at+noon → Datetime for this Friday at noon in PDT ("friday noon" works too)
• /pdt/7+hours+before+tomorrow+at+noon → I think you get the point.

See Chronic documentation for more examples.

You can also add a formatting string with the query parameter based on Ruby Time#strftime.
Because '%'s require URI escaping the '\' symbol can be used as a substitute. The following examples are equivalent.

• /utc/now?format=%25a%20%25b%20%25d%20%25I:%25M:%25S%20%25Z%20%25Y
• /utc/now?\a \b \d \I:\M:\S \Z \Y

JSONP is also supported for use with javascript. Example usage:

    <script type="text/javascript">
      function myCallback(json) {
        alert(new Date(json.dateString));
      }
    </script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://timeapi.org/utc/now.json?callback=myCallback"></script>
  

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