Dates

A task does not require a due date:

pydo add Send Alice a birthday card

However these are the kind of tasks can benefit from having a due date.

The due date¶

Use the due task attribute to define the date by which a task needs to be completed. Using the previous example, you can set the due date to Alice's birthday:

pydo add Send Alice a birthday card due:2016-11-08

Now your task has an associated due date, to help you determine when you need to work on it.

To change the due date of a task use the mod command:

pydo mod {{ task_id }} due:{{ new_due_date }}

Date format¶

pydo understands different ways of expressing dates.

• YYYY-MM-DD: Enter year, month and day.
• YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm: Enter year, month, day, hour and minute.
• now: Current local date and time.
• tomorrow: Local date for tomorrow, same as now + 24h.
• yesterday: Local date for yesterday, same as now - 24h.
• monday, tuesday, ...: Local date for the specified day, after today. There is also available in the short three lettered version: mon, tue...

• Combination of the next operators to specify a relative date from now:

  • s: seconds,
  • m: minutes.
  • h: hours,
  • d: days.
  • w: weeks.
  • mo: months.
  • rmo: relative months. Use this if you want to set the 3^rd Friday of the month.
  • y: years.

  So 1y2mo30s will set the date to now + 1 year + 2 months + 30 seconds.