I hope you didn't think I was asking for relationship advice.

Infrequently, I have to offer survey respondents the ability to specify when an event occurred. What results is a horribly messy string that I honestly just don't know what to do with. Beyond recoding by hand.

Here it is a short sample, of thousands: 

c("May2/ 12 noon", "9:45 am", "11:00 AM AST", "April 27 / 12:00 AST", 
"11:40 AM AST", "April 25 2011", "April 12th 2011 / 8:44", "April 12 2011 / 8:36am", 
"April 12 2011 / 8:30am", "April 12th 2011 / 8:18", "April 12 2011 / 8:12am", 
"April 11th 2011 / 5:57pm", "April 11th 2011 / 5:49pm", "April 11th 2011 / 5:42pm", 
"April 11th 2011 / 5:36pm", "April 11th 2011 / 5:27", "April 5 @ 11:26am", 
"8:50", "April 4th 12:45pm", "April 4th around 10am", "April 4th around 10am", 
"Mar 18, 2011 9:33am", "Mar 18, 2011 9:27am", "df", "fg", "12:16", 
"9:50", "Feb 8, 2011 / 12:20pm", "8:34 am  2/4/11", "Jan 31, 2011 2:50pm", 
"Jan 31, 2011 2:45pm", "Jan 31, 2011 2:38pm", "Jan 31, 2011 2:26pm", 
"11h09", "11:00 am", "1h02 pm", "10h03", "2h10", "Jan 13, 2011 9:50am Van", 
"Jan 12, 2011", "Jan 12, 2011 3:59pm", "Jan 12     14:19PM", 
"Jan 12, 2011 1:35pm", "Jan 12,2011 1:28pm", "1h36", "9h15", 
"9h09", "8h51", "8h45", "8h35", "1h12 pm", "12h59", "11h52 am", 
"10h45", "15h55", "Dec 31, 10 11:11am", "Dec 31,10 10:15am", 
"Dec 30, 2010 12:32pm", "Dec 30, 2010 12:18pm", "9:16 am", "11h16 am", 
"11h12", "9h29 am", "11h38", "Dec 16, 2010", "December 16, 2010", 
"December 16, 2010", "Dec 15,2010", "DEC 14 2010", "Dec 14 11:38", 
"Dec 14 11:35", "Dec 14 11:25", "December 13, 2010", "Dec 10, 1:38 pm", 
"Dec 10, 1:26 pm", "Dec 10, 1:20 pm", "Dec 10, 1:12 pm", "December 9 2010", 
"11h10 am", "10h59 am", "10:50 am", "Tues Dec 7th, 9:45 Van time", 
"Dec 3, 2010 12:30pm", "Dec 3, 2010 12:20pm", "Dec 3, 2010 12:10 pm", 
"November 30, 2010 4.02pm", "November 30, 2010", "november 29 120pm", 
"November 29 2010 11:27", "10:12am November 29, 2010", "Nov 26/10 1:1
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