npm install chrono-node

component install

> var chrono = require('chrono-node');

> chrono.parseDate('Today'); 
Thu Aug 23 2012 12:00:00 GMT+0700 (ICT)

> chrono.parse('Today'); 
[ { start: 
     { year: 2012,
       month: 7,
       day: 23,
       hour: undefined,
       minute: undefined,
       second: undefined,
       date: [Function] },
    startDate: Thu Aug 23 2012 12:00:00 GMT+0700 (ICT),
    referenceDate: Thu Aug 23 2012 01:17:46 GMT+0700 (ICT),
    index: 0,
    text: 'Today',
    sentence: undefined } ]

> chrono.parseDate('Friday', new Date(2012,7,23)); 
Fri Aug 24 2012 12:00:00 GMT+0700 (ICT)

> chrono.parseDate('Friday', new Date(2012,7,1)); 
Fri Aug 03 2012 12:00:00 GMT+0700 (ICT)

> var text = 'October 7, 2011, of which details were not revealed out of respect to Jobs\'s family.[239] Apple announced on the same day that they had no plans for a public service, but were encouraging "well-wishers" to send their remembrance messages to an email address created to receive such messages.[240] Sunday, October 16, 2011'

> chrono.parse(text)
[ { start: 
     { year: 2011,
       month: 9,
       day: 7,
       hour: undefined,
       minute: undefined,
       second: undefined,
       date: [Function] },
    startDate: Fri Oct 07 2011 12:00:00 GMT+0700 (ICT),
    referenceDate: Thu Aug 23 2012 01:48:37 GMT+0700 (ICT),
    index: 0,
    text: 'October 7, 2011',
    sentence: undefined },
  { start: 
     { year: 2011,
       month: 9,
       day: 16,
       hour: undefined,
       minute: undefined,
       second: undefined,
       date: [Function] },
    startDate: Sun Oct 16 2011 12:00:00 GMT+0700 (ICT),
    referenceDate: Thu Aug 23 2012 01:48:37 GMT+0700 (ICT),
    index: 297,
    text: 'Sunday, October 16, 2011',
    sentence: undefined } ]