Steph - 
   We went into some detail about the text parsing subtleties/limitations 
in this 
thread: 
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mylifeorganized/-d$20rmd%7Csort:date/mylifeorganized/DlCY6XSzTRc/GKxGus9tBgAJ

Ray

On Saturday, July 1, 2017 at 2:33:28 PM UTC-4, Ray Emerson wrote:
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> I remember a thread where this was discussed at length a few months back. 
> I'll see if I can find it when I'm back at the computer. Definitely recall 
> odd behaviors when using both start and due dates in the same task.
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> On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 12:31 PM -0400, "Stéph" <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
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> Interesting - you're right. That exact text parses correctly. 
>>
>> Where it starts to struggle is if I have both start and due dates, then add 
>> a reminder. The problem is if you use phrases, because it often stops 
>> parsing before reading the whole phrase. For a start, the -s and -d switches 
>> shouldn't have spaces after them: 
>> "Call Jim -sTuesday -dThursday remind Wednesday" works
>> "Call Jim -s Tuesday -d Thursday" doesn't work - both the start and due date 
>> get set to Thursday. 
>> "Call Jim -sTuesday -dThursday remind Wednesday" works
>> "Call Jim -sTuesday -dThursday remind 1 hour in advance" diesn't work - it 
>> sets the reminder to 1 hour from now. 
>>
>> This deserves more research and experimentation but, in the meantime, thank 
>> goodness for ctrl-Z to undo!
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