# Chronic 0.2.1 Released (Silicon Valley Ruby Conference Editi

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**Created:** [April 21, 2007, 6:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chronic-0-2-1-released-silicon-valley-ruby-conference-editi/92621 "2007-04-21T18:13:32Z")\
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chronic version 0.2.1 has been released!

[http://chronic.rubyforge.org/](http://chronic.rubyforge.org/)  
by Tom Preston-Werner

Chronic is a sophisticated natural language date/time parser written in  
pure  
Ruby.

Changes:

= 0.2.1

- fixed time overflow issue

- implemented “next” for minute repeater

- generalized time dealiasing to dealias regardless of day portion and  
time  
position

- added additional token match for cases like “friday evening at 7” and  
“tomorrow evening at 7”

- added support for Time#to\_s output format: “Mon Apr 02 17:00:00 PDT  
2007”