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[Tim Gales]

What you want to do involves setting up some 'fuzzy' sets
for use with 'fuzzy' logic.
e.g
 "early in the week" is in the set of ('Mon', 'Tue' )
 "middle of the week is in the set of ('Tue', 'Wed'. Thu')
    "end of the week is in the set of ( 'Thu', 'Fri')

Typically such sets are used for queries (instead of input)
like "What do I have scheduled for the "end of the week"?

However you could associate a key phrase like "mid-week" for
input.

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-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org
[mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On Behalf Of David
Vogel
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 1:23 PM
To: talk at lists.nyphp.org
Subject: [nycphp-talk] handling vague dates.

Hey,

I have a small batch of dates that I'd like to get into a
db.  Almost
all of them are specific, eg October 1.  However, a few
refer to things
that happen around a certain time.  For example students'
"Housing bill
for spring semester due" is listed as 'Early January'.

So, I'm not sure how to set up the db to accomodate the
oddballs.  Any
suggestions would be much appreciated.

thanks,
Dave

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