Time detection / parsing (yearly salary)

[tchaflich]

One message that the bot reacted to:

I was wondering what it could have thought was a time in there (my best guess was "year"), but it responded with this:

had a base salary of $927,000 a year.

It detected the part of the salary after the comma, a space, and the letter "a" and interpreted that as midnight (I assume, since NL and US are six hours apart).

I would suggest that any commas that are part of a formatted numeric string (including currency signs, decimal points, commas, negative signs, and numeric characters) not be considered as a time.

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It's also a side note, but 000 (a|p) both parse as valid times (noon and midnight). I don't know of any time format that represents time in quite this way. The mixture of three digits and meridian indicator doesn't seem to work for non-zero digits (for example, 111 a is not picked up by the bot as a valid time).