What words and phrases will TuskTools Calendar recognize when I'm creating an appointment?

There are many different ways you can enter dates and times when creating an appointment.  Following are some specific notes about the words and phrases you can use.

• You can specify dates using either numbers or words to represent the month, day, and year (12/5/11, November 21, Feb. twenty-third, Aug 2nd, 6/29 are all valid entries).
  
  
• You can use uppercase or lowercase letters; date interpretations are not case-sensitive.
  
  
• You can specify periods of time, and you can use either numbers or letters (in 2 weeks, in four months).
  
  
• If you don't include a year, TuskTools Calendar assigns a year that puts the date in the future.
  
  
• You can specify a time-of-day along with a date, or a time by itself. If you enter a time without a date, TuskTools Calendar automatically assigns today's date.
  
  
• If you're entering a date and time(s), the date must precede the times.
  
  
• Date/time recognition is based on your computer's current settings, as defined in the Control Panel's "Regional Settings" applet.  However, at present only English words are recognized as day-of-week and month names.
  
  
• You can enter times using either a 12-hour or 24-hour clock.
  
  
• You can specify multi-day events.  To do this, type two separate date strings in your note body.  For example, to create a multi-day event spanning Nov. 12 to Nov. 14, you can type ##11/12/2011##  ##11/14/2011##
  
  
• If you enter 12-hour times without specifying AM or PM, TuskTools Calendar does its best to intelligently interpret your entry.  For example, if you enter ##10/3/11 from 10 to 12:00 pm##, the program will interpret "10" as 10:00 am and will set the appointment as lasting from 10 am to noon.
  
  
• If you're specifying both a starting and ending time, for best results put a space between the two times.  I.e.:

  8:00-9:30 am	Don't do this
  8:00 - 9:30 am	Do this

• All date phrases are relative to today's date. This means that TuskTools Calendar does not currently recognize a phrase like "2 weeks from next Tuesday".

Here are some additional guidelines and examples for entering dates:

Acceptable date phrase	Examples
1 through 31	Nov. 12, December 3, 23 Aug
1st through 31st	June 25th
first through thirty-first	twenty-fourth of Feb
today	(current system date)
tomorrow	(day after current system date)
yesterday	(day before current system date)
fortnight	(14 days)
in n days, weeks, months	in 4 days, in five months
of	19th of July
next, last	next month, last May 26th
days of the week	last Wed, in 3 Mondays

Here are some additional guidelines and examples for entering times:

Acceptable time phrase	Examples
12-hour time	8 AM, 8AM, 8 A, 8 A.M., 8 am, 8am, 8a, 8 a.m., 8:00am, 8:00 a, 8:00 a.m.
24-hour time	07:00, 09:30, 18:30
noon	12:00 pm
midnight, midnite	12:00 am