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+/* 'Magic' date parsing, by Simon Willison (6th October 2003)
+   http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/10/06/betterDateInput
+   Adapted for 6newslawrence.com, 28th January 2004
+*/
+
+/* Finds the index of the first occurence of item in the array, or -1 if not found */
+if (typeof Array.prototype.indexOf == 'undefined') {
+    Array.prototype.indexOf = function(item) {
+        var len = this.length;
+        for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+            if (this[i] == item) {
+                return i;
+            }
+        }
+        return -1;
+    };
+}
+/* Returns an array of items judged 'true' by the passed in test function */
+if (typeof Array.prototype.filter == 'undefined') {
+    Array.prototype.filter = function(test) {
+        var matches = [];
+        var len = this.length;
+        for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+            if (test(this[i])) {
+                matches[matches.length] = this[i];
+            }
+        }
+        return matches;
+    };
+}
+
+var monthNames = gettext("January February March April May June July August September October November December").split(" ");
+var weekdayNames = gettext("Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday").split(" ");
+
+/* Takes a string, returns the index of the month matching that string, throws
+   an error if 0 or more than 1 matches
+*/
+function parseMonth(month) {
+    var matches = monthNames.filter(function(item) { 
+        return new RegExp("^" + month, "i").test(item);
+    });
+    if (matches.length == 0) {
+        throw new Error("Invalid month string");
+    }
+    if (matches.length > 1) {
+        throw new Error("Ambiguous month");
+    }
+    return monthNames.indexOf(matches[0]);
+}
+/* Same as parseMonth but for days of the week */
+function parseWeekday(weekday) {
+    var matches = weekdayNames.filter(function(item) {
+        return new RegExp("^" + weekday, "i").test(item);
+    });
+    if (matches.length == 0) {
+        throw new Error("Invalid day string");
+    }
+    if (matches.length > 1) {
+        throw new Error("Ambiguous weekday");
+    }
+    return weekdayNames.indexOf(matches[0]);
+}
+
+/* Array of objects, each has 're', a regular expression and 'handler', a 
+   function for creating a date from something that matches the regular 
+   expression. Handlers may throw errors if string is unparseable. 
+*/
+var dateParsePatterns = [
+    // Today
+    {   re: /^tod/i,
+        handler: function() { 
+            return new Date();
+        } 
+    },
+    // Tomorrow
+    {   re: /^tom/i,
+        handler: function() {
+            var d = new Date(); 
+            d.setDate(d.getDate() + 1); 
+            return d;
+        }
+    },
+    // Yesterday
+    {   re: /^yes/i,
+        handler: function() {
+            var d = new Date();
+            d.setDate(d.getDate() - 1);
+            return d;
+        }
+    },
+    // 4th
+    {   re: /^(\d{1,2})(st|nd|rd|th)?$/i, 
+        handler: function(bits) {
+            var d = new Date();
+            d.setDate(parseInt(bits[1], 10));
+            return d;
+        }
+    },
+    // 4th Jan
+    {   re: /^(\d{1,2})(?:st|nd|rd|th)? (\w+)$/i, 
+        handler: function(bits) {
+            var d = new Date();
+            d.setDate(parseInt(bits[1], 10));
+            d.setMonth(parseMonth(bits[2]));
+            return d;
+        }
+    },
+    // 4th Jan 2003
+    {   re: /^(\d{1,2})(?:st|nd|rd|th)? (\w+),? (\d{4})$/i,
+        handler: function(bits) {
+            var d = new Date();
+            d.setDate(parseInt(bits[1], 10));
+            d.setMonth(parseMonth(bits[2]));
+            d.setYear(bits[3]);
+            return d;
+        }
+    },
+    // Jan 4th
+    {   re: /^(\w+) (\d{1,2})(?:st|nd|rd|th)?$/i, 
+        handler: function(bits) {
+            var d = new Date();
+            d.setDate(parseInt(bits[2], 10));
+            d.setMonth(parseMonth(bits[1]));
+            return d;
+        }
+    },
+    // Jan 4th 2003
+    {   re: /^(\w+) (\d{1,2})(?:st|nd|rd|th)?,? (\d{4})$/i,
+        handler: function(bits) {
+            var d = new Date();
+            d.setDate(parseInt(bits[2], 10));
+            d.setMonth(parseMonth(bits[1]));
+            d.setYear(bits[3]);
+            return d;
+        }
+    },
+    // next Tuesday - this is suspect due to weird meaning of "next"
+    {   re: /^next (\w+)$/i,
+        handler: function(bits) {
+            var d = new Date();
+            var day = d.getDay();
+            var newDay = parseWeekday(bits[1]);
+            var addDays = newDay - day;
+            if (newDay <= day) {
+                addDays += 7;
+            }
+            d.setDate(d.getDate() + addDays);
+            return d;
+        }
+    },
+    // last Tuesday
+    {   re: /^last (\w+)$/i,
+        handler: function(bits) {
+            throw new Error("Not yet implemented");
+        }
+    },
+    // mm/dd/yyyy (American style)
+    {   re: /(\d{1,2})\/(\d{1,2})\/(\d{4})/,
+        handler: function(bits) {
+            var d = new Date();
+            d.setYear(bits[3]);
+            d.setDate(parseInt(bits[2], 10));
+            d.setMonth(parseInt(bits[1], 10) - 1); // Because months indexed from 0
+            return d;
+        }
+    },
+    // yyyy-mm-dd (ISO style)
+    {   re: /(\d{4})-(\d{1,2})-(\d{1,2})/,
+        handler: function(bits) {
+            var d = new Date();
+            d.setYear(parseInt(bits[1]));
+            d.setDate(parseInt(bits[3], 10));
+            d.setMonth(parseInt(bits[2], 10) - 1);
+            return d;
+        }
+    },
+];
+
+function parseDateString(s) {
+    for (var i = 0; i < dateParsePatterns.length; i++) {
+        var re = dateParsePatterns[i].re;
+        var handler = dateParsePatterns[i].handler;
+        var bits = re.exec(s);
+        if (bits) {
+            return handler(bits);
+        }
+    }
+    throw new Error("Invalid date string");
+}
+
+function fmt00(x) {
+    // fmt00: Tags leading zero onto numbers 0 - 9.
+    // Particularly useful for displaying results from Date methods.
+    //
+    if (Math.abs(parseInt(x)) < 10){
+        x = "0"+ Math.abs(x);
+    }
+    return x;
+}
+
+function parseDateStringISO(s) {
+    try {
+        var d = parseDateString(s);
+        return d.getFullYear() + '-' + (fmt00(d.getMonth() + 1)) + '-' + fmt00(d.getDate())
+    }
+    catch (e) { return s; }
+}
+function magicDate(input) {
+    var messagespan = input.id + 'Msg';
+    try {
+        var d = parseDateString(input.value);
+        input.value = d.getFullYear() + '-' + (fmt00(d.getMonth() + 1)) + '-' + 
+            fmt00(d.getDate());
+        input.className = '';
+        // Human readable date
+        if (document.getElementById(messagespan)) {
+            document.getElementById(messagespan).firstChild.nodeValue = d.toDateString();
+            document.getElementById(messagespan).className = 'normal';
+        }
+    }
+    catch (e) {
+        input.className = 'error';
+        var message = e.message;
+        // Fix for IE6 bug
+        if (message.indexOf('is null or not an object') > -1) {
+            message = 'Invalid date string';
+        }
+        if (document.getElementById(messagespan)) {
+            document.getElementById(messagespan).firstChild.nodeValue = message;
+            document.getElementById(messagespan).className = 'error';
+        }
+    }
+}