DateUtils
Date parsing utilities
Provides a unified date parsing function that tries multiple formats including standard formats and common CMS-specific formats.
Class methods
parse(date_str : String | Nil) : Time | Nil
Parse a date string from various formats
Tries the following formats in order:
- Cronic (natural language dates like "tomorrow", "2 weeks ago")
- RFC 2822 (e.g., "Wed, 02 Oct 2002 13:00:00 GMT")
- ISO 8601 (e.g., "2022-01-01T00:00:00Z")
- Pocketbase (e.g., "2026-01-29 11:57:28.164Z")
- HTTP date (via HTTP.parse_time)
Returns nil if the date cannot be parsed.