Lightweight Python package to fuzzy extract dates from a corpus of text.
pip install date_fuzz
from date_fuzz import find_dates
text = "A thing happened on Jan 1st 2012 and the next morning at 09:15 and also jan 15th at 12am in 2018."
dates = find_dates(text)
print(dates)
# Output
[
('2012-01-01', 4),
('2012-01-02 09:15', 9),
('2018-01-15 12:00', 15)
]