Forums

Discuss all things Remember The Milk.

menu

Splunk-like short format for due dates

graham.poulter says:
The RTM accepted formats for due dates is rather verbose and limiting.

On the web-app it autocompletes some days of the week, which is helpful.

However, RTM lacks a shorthand for expressing other dates. Splunk has a decent relative date format based on h(hour), d(day), w(week), m(month), y(year), as [+-]N[hdwmy]. So -3d is 3 days ago, +3m is 3 months from now.

It also uses "@" to snap to a particular date in the range. So 2w@w3 is 2 weeks from now, snapping to 3rd day of the week (Tuesday).

Here is the full format:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/User/ChangeTheTimeRangeOfYourSearch#Define_custom_relative_time_ranges
Posted at 11:04am on December 18, 2011
sn3akyp3t3 says:
Its too geeky not to like. Its clean and resembles somewhat database time/date representations. I support it.
Posted 12 years ago
stuart.l.gordon says:
It might take a bit of getting used to but once you are, it would be efficient and accurate. It also wouldn't impede on users who don't use the function. Nice idea.
Posted 12 years ago
Log in to post a reply.