Additional Items

The following will prove useful as these dynamic dates can be typed in nearly any date field in CT3.

The comprehensive options with entering dates are as follows:

• Quick shortcuts:
  • “-” yesterday
  • “+” tomorrow
  • “.” or “T” today

• Date parsing according to current computer settings:
  • “January 2, 2019” or “1/2/2019” would be January 2^nd in the US (February 1^st in Canada)

• Hyphens:
  • “2019-01-02” or “01-02-2019” would be January 2^nd in the US (February 1^st in Canada)

• Numbers only:
  • “04” or “4” would be the 4^th day of the current month and year
  • “0102” would be January 2^nd of the current year
  • “010218” or “01022018” or “20180102” would be January 2^nd of 2018
  • “01218” and “0122018” also parse out to January 2^nd but the goal is to catch the user error of not using a 2-digit day

• Arithmetic:
  • “-4”, “-3”, “-0” yields that number of days in the past. For example “-1” is yesterday and “-7” is a week ago
  • “+4”, “+3”, “+0” yields that number of days in the future. For example “+1” is tomorrow and “+7” is a week from now

• End of month (executed in December 2019):
  • “MonthEnd-0” end of current month: 12/31/2019
  • “MonthEnd-2” end of month two months ago: 10/31/2019
  • “MonthEnd+2” end of month two months from now: 02/29/2020

• Start of month (executed in December 2019):
  • “MonthStart-0” start of current month: 12/01/2019
  • “MonthStart-2” start of month two months ago: 10/01/2019
  • “MonthStart+2” start of month two months from now: 02/01/2020

• Relative weekdays:
  • “Sunday-0” for this Sunday and “Sunday-1” for last Sunday.

• “Sunday-1”, “Sun-1”, “Su-1” with any weekday name gets that day of the week relative to today, with “-0” equating to when we would say “this”, and “-1” meaning last week, “-2” meaning two weeks ago, etc.

• Examples (using Thursday 12/05/2019 as the current date):
  “Sunday-0” yields 12/08/2019 (“this Sunday”) as Sunday is the last day of week by default
  “Thursday-0” yields 12/5/2019 (“this Thursday” is taken to mean “today”)
  “Thursday+1” yields 12/12/2019 (“next Thursday”)
  “Saturday+1” yields 12/14/2019 (“next Saturday”)

Day names: