Adding human-readable months as date expressions

[83noit]

Being able to use:

• 3-character English month name abbreviation, eg ‘jan’, ‘feb’
• Complete English month name, eg ‘january’, ‘february’

Like the days of the week, it would default to the nearest occurrence in the future (e.g. feb -> 2025-02-01).

[VladimirMarkelov]

Thank you for the suggestion!

Do you want to be able to use only a month name alone? Or you also suggest setting more accurate dates like feb-04/2027-feb/2025-feb-17? For the case "only a month name alone" it should be easy and simple fix.

[83noit]

Thanks for looking into it! I'm loving the last few releases of TTDL!

The month alone (--set-due oct; "(Z) Foo/Bar t:nov") , as a shortcut, like for the days of the week.

The iso format (yyyy-mm-dd or mm-dd) is more convenient and shorter to type when date or year are involved.

For context, it is inspired from Taskwarrior named dates. I personally never used more than the days of the week and the month names, but others might have other requirements.

[VladimirMarkelov]

Available in version 4.8.0:

ttdl.exe add "due:apr" --dry-run
To be added:
 # D P Created Finished Due        Subject
-------------------------------------------
 1                      2025-04-01 due:2025-04-01

ttdl.exe add "due:apr+1w" --dry-run
To be added:
 # D P Created Finished Due        Subject
-------------------------------------------
 1                      2025-04-08 due:2025-04-08

[83noit]

Thanks!