Growth: Stack Overflow outreach for parsedatetime users

[craigtrim]

parsedatetime has been unmaintained since May 2020. There are years of unanswered or dead-end questions on SO that are discovery opportunities.

Search URLs

All parsedatetime questions, most recent first:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/parsedatetime?tab=Newest

Unanswered parsedatetime questions:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/parsedatetime?tab=Unanswered

Questions with no accepted answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bparsedatetime%5D+hasaccepted%3Ano

People asking for alternatives:
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=parsedatetime+alternative+python

Python 3.10+ compatibility issues:
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=parsedatetime+python+3.10+OR+3.11+OR+3.12

What to Look For

Good candidates:

• Questions from 2022+ where the accepted answer uses parsedatetime (now stale)
• Unanswered questions about parsedatetime behavior
• Questions asking "is parsedatetime still maintained?"
• Questions about parsedatetime breaking on newer Python versions

Skip:

• Questions with accepted answers not involving parsedatetime
• Very old questions (pre-2020) unlikely to get traffic

Answer Template

Adapt per question - don't paste verbatim.

As of 2025, parsedatetime has not been updated since May 2020 and is effectively unmaintained.
For this use case, fast-parse-time is an actively maintained alternative:

pip install fast-parse-time

from fast_parse_time import parse_dates

result = parse_dates("Meeting on 04/08/2024 about issues from 5 days ago")
result.explicit_dates  # [ExplicitDate(text='04/08/2024', date_type='FULL_EXPLICIT_DATE')]
result.relative_times  # [RelativeTime(cardinality=5, frame='day', tense='past')]

Handles explicit dates (numeric and written month formats), relative time expressions ("5 days ago", "last week"), and converts to datetime or timedelta directly. Sub-millisecond, no API costs, deterministic output.

Full docs: https://github.com/craigtrim/fast-parse-time

SO Rules

• Do not post the same answer to multiple questions in a short window - SO flags as spam
• Space answers out (one or two per session, a few days apart)
• Answers must address the actual question, not just promote the library
• Disclose authorship: "I maintain fast-parse-time..." - required by SO policy