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Shawn, please email us ([old address removed]) with the names of any tasks where you see this problem, and we can check it out.

Thanks!

Posted at 2:24pm on December 19, 2005

Sorry, I already deleted it.

maybe you can reproduce it by create a task, set it to every weekdays, and see if it goes across to weekends.

Regards

Posted at 3:03pm on December 19, 2005

About "Next ..." problem:
for example, today is Dec 19.
If I type Next Monday, it becomes Jan 2, not Dec 26.

Hope it can be fixed soon.

thanks!

Posted at 3:05pm on December 19, 2005

Thanks, I'll do some more testing on the 'weekday' issue.

Regarding 'next' in due dates -- the way that this works is if today is Monday (Dec 19) then typing 'mon' will produce the upcoming Monday (Dec 26), and 'next mon' will produce the Monday after that (Jan 2).

Posted at 3:23pm on December 19, 2005

I see.
But that's not our natural language's "Next", isn't that?

Posted at 6:21pm on December 19, 2005

'Next' is pretty ambiguous. Different people will interpret it differently, depending on where they live or which day of the week it's said on.

We've had to be consistent ('mon' meaning the upcoming Monday, 'next mon' meaning the one after that). This may or may not be your natural language, depending on where you live and which English you're using :)

Posted at 9:29am on December 20, 2005

luc0zade

I think Emily's right about this. Regardless of what's 'natural', interpreting 'Next' in this way gives extra flexibility. As Emily explains, 'Monday' is the first Monday after the current day, and 'next Monday' is the second Monday after the current day.

If you want to enter a task which is due on the day it is entered, simply type 'today' as the Due Date.

The flexible way in which RTM interprets dates entered as words is just one of the features which makes this such a brilliant service!

Posted at 7:32pm on January 5, 2006