With practice, you may find it faster to enter dates by hand rather than using the icon. You can enter dates in virtually any format:

• 1/4/05 8:00
• 13dec1971
• 19711213
• December 13, 1971 17:45
• 7/15 20:45
• x ("today")
• xx ("yesterday")
• today 11:30
• x 9:23
• yesterday
• 042330Z ("The 4th of the current month at 23:30Z")

If you omit the year, the current year will be used.

Back to help index

Next article