Ambiguous date and time formats

In the Ambiguous formats dialog, specify which potentially ambiguous formats copy2calendar should recognize when analyzing textual data.

A date or time format is considered potentially ambiguous when it cannot be distinguished

• from date or time information with a different meaning or
• from other types of numeric information, such as postal codes, telephone numbers etc.

It is advisable to select only the date and time strings actually required for recognizing data from your sources.

Example:

If you want to recognize the date string 12-05-09 as either format YY-MM-DD or format DD-MM-YY, copy2calendar will ask you how to interpret the date each time an ambiguous interpretation is found.

American/European date orders

With Set to defaults for..… you can set the list of recognized formats to several sets of default configurations. This will allow you to correctly interpret date specifications like 12-05-2009, which have different meanings in the US and Europe.

• American date order (month-day)
  Will apply the default settings for interpreting dates such as 12-05-2009 as DEC-05-2009
• European date order (day- month)
  Will apply the default settings for interpreting dates such as 12-05-2009 as 12-MAY-2009
• American and European date orders
  Will apply the default settings, which will let you choose each time how to interpret dates like 12-05-2009