Time handling is commonly considered a difficult problem by programmers due to myriad standards and complexity of time zone definitions. This also complicates scheduling across multiple time zones especially when one takes Daylight Saving Time into account. We present a highly expressive set of APIs, Timere, which can describe scheduling requirements precisely with flexible time zone handling, along with a natural language parser that can handle common English phrases. We also contribute a new date time handling library as part of the work.

Di Long Li The Australian National University

Gabriel Radanne Inria