Dates

Use TaskPaper's date and time format to store dates and to perform date [d] searches.

TaskPaper has a good foundation to support dates, but it's missing convenience. It still needs things like a easy user interface for inputting dates. As it stands now I would recommend dates for those who like to mess around and experiment. Otherwise they might cause you more pain and confusion then benefit as this point.

Example

- Order seeds @due(2016-03-16)
- Go to movies @due(2016-03-18 7pm)

Using date based searches (notice the [d]) you can find both items like this:

@due <=[d] March 18 7pm

Try changing the 7pm to 6pm and you will no longer find the second item. Even better you can also use relative dates in your searches.

For example try:

@due <=[d] today + 24h

If today is March 18th (it is for me right now!) then that search will find the first item. today starts at midnight, so I add the 24h to cover the entire day. Relative dates are great for saved searches.

Date/Time Formats

These examples show the different formats that you can use when entering dates and times.

Dates

Dates resolve to midnight of the given date:

• 2016
• 2016-01
• 2016-01-10
• today
• tomorrow
• next Week
• next Month
• next Monday
• last June
• June
• next June
• next June 3

Note week resolves to ISO standard weeks that start on Monday, not Sunday.

Times

Times are relative to the current date:

• 6 am
• 3:15 pm
• 16:15

Durations

Durations offset from the current time:

• 2 days
• +1 week
• -6 hours
• 2 days 6 hours

Combinations

You can combine dates, times, and durations:

• tomorrow 9am
• Nov 26 3:15 +1day

ISO 8601 Strings

If TaskPaper's date and time parser doesn't recognize a date it uses the momentjs library to parse the date. This gives support for ISO 8601 strings.