Allows to input of plain text such as "today" in time edit widget
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	Dec 5 2014, 1:02 PM

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It would be nice to be able to input "today" in the time edit interface in order to get today date. It would be useful in Wikidata for properties like "date of retrieval".

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Open	None	T87764 Bugs related to time datatype (tracking)
Open	None	T76859 Allows to input of plain text such as "today" in time edit widget
Resolved	• adrianheine	T109457 [Story] Simplify input for dates

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Tpt created this task.Dec 5 2014, 1:02 PM

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Hmm, I thought I already filled a bug for this. Would be nice to be able to add relative things like "today", "now", "tomorrow", "yesterday" and this gets expanded to the actual date (and maybe time in the future).

revi subscribed.Dec 12 2014, 10:13 AM

Addshore merged a task: T87018: wikibase datetime parsers should be able to parse simple text.Jan 16 2015, 1:47 PM

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Addshore renamed this task from Allows to input "today" in time edit widget to Allows to input of plain text such as "today" in time edit widget.Jan 16 2015, 1:49 PM

Tobi_WMDE_SW added a parent task: T87764: Bugs related to time datatype (tracking).Jan 28 2015, 2:19 PM

Lydia_Pintscher mentioned this in T89084: Main themes of the Wikimedia Hackathon 2015.Feb 27 2015, 4:25 PM

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This was requested again today.

Sjoerddebruin subscribed.Dec 14 2015, 9:59 AM

Should this be a fixed keyword like in SQL and programming languages, namely "now"? It would be "now" in all languages then. It may not be easy to type in certain languages. But the good thing is: Its the same everywhere, every time.

I assume we want this translated.

I suggest to not do more than the current date (and possibly time). I suggest to implement a CurrentTimeParser that understands "now" and "today" in localized as well as canonical English form. But nothing else. Not "yesterday". Not stuff like "-2 days" like it is possible in PHPs date parser. This is fairly easy.

Discussed with @Lydia_Pintscher during lunch.

As a server side feature this will not work as expected. The server may be in an other day than the user, resulting in the previous or next day, not the one the user expected.
We could take the users time zone setting into account. But this is not 100% correct in all cases, and it's not there for anonymous users. So not really a solution.
Conclusion: Should be a JavaScript feature.
- Either a full featured date picker. But we should not implement our own, but reuse the OOjs core one, if it exists.
- Or a tiny "today" button. But this should be blocked on T109457: [Story] Simplify input for dates, because adding an other button is not a good idea.