In this section, the UG states "You can only use plain English to describe the intended deadline, such as today , tomorrow , next Thursday , 14 November 2022 , and so on."
"Plain english" is too vague for the user, as they may believe that certain inputs might work but they don't. For instance:
last thursday works correctly, but previous thursday does not. (sets it to next thursday)
Days of the week in the past (e.g. today is Friday, so thursday for example) will set the date to next thursday instead of thursday in the current week. This has the same behaviour as next thursday, and might confuse users.
next next thursday has the same effect as next thursday and following thursday has the same effect as thursday.
It would be very helpful if the team could include more details on exactly which formats/phrases are accepted in the UG, else it might be very confusing for users.
In this section, the UG states "You can only use plain English to describe the intended deadline, such as
today
,tomorrow
,next Thursday
,14 November 2022
, and so on.""Plain english" is too vague for the user, as they may believe that certain inputs might work but they don't. For instance:
last thursday
works correctly, butprevious thursday
does not. (sets it to next thursday)thursday
for example) will set the date to next thursday instead of thursday in the current week. This has the same behaviour asnext thursday
, and might confuse users.next next thursday
has the same effect asnext thursday
andfollowing thursday
has the same effect asthursday
.It would be very helpful if the team could include more details on exactly which formats/phrases are accepted in the UG, else it might be very confusing for users.