Dates and times
Ways to say a date
- Relative:
today,tomorrow,in 3 days,next week. Shorthands work too:tmrw,tmw,eod(end of day),eow(end of week). - Weekdays:
friday,next tuesday. - Calendar dates:
6/12,June 12,Jun 12. - Spans:
June 1-3makes a three-day event.
Two rules that surprise people
A bare weekday means the next one. If today is Tuesday and you type tuesday, Chrona schedules a week out, not today — because if you meant today you would have said “today”.
A date that already passed rolls forward a year. Typing January 4 in November gives you next January, not one ten months gone.
Ways to say a time
at 2pm,at 9:30am,at noon,at midnight3-4pmorfrom 9am to 5pmfor a rangefor 30 min/for 2 hoursto set a length instead of an end time
The bare-hour rule
Almost nobody schedules a 6 AM meeting by typing “at 6”, so Chrona takes the reading you almost certainly meant. If you did mean the morning, say at 6am. Hours 8 through 12 are read literally, because “at 9” is genuinely ambiguous and morning is the safer guess there.
Ranges need the meridiem on the end
Write 3-4pm, not 3-4. Without an am/pm anywhere in the range, Chrona cannot tell a time range from a date range or a page number, so it leaves the text alone rather than guessing. An event with no end time is one hour long.