I think I know what you mean about Siri being finicky with dates. I just tried asking her when the 2016 summer Olympics start and she wanted to do a web search on that.
Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Jan 1, 2015, at 2:49 PM, Flor Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ah, some of us can do it the old-fashioned way. <LOL>. > > From: Sieghard Weitzel <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2015 6:19 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Simply ask SIRI, was: AN INDEPENDENT PLUG FOR APPLEVIS > Hi Carol, > > Another very easy way to find out what weekday a particular date is to simply > ask SIRI. I use this a lot for my business when I have to pay invoices and > maybe I have an invoice which is due on April 7 and I want to know if this is > a weekend or not. So, I simply invoke SIRI and ask “What day is April 7”. I > just did this as I am typing the message and SIRI replied “It’s Tuesday, > April 7, 2015”. > > If you are asking about a date which is in the future, but in the same year, > you don’t have to include the year when you ask. E.g. as it is January 1 > today, I can ask anything up to December 31, 2015 simply by asking “What date > is July 3” or what date is October 25” without including “2015”. If I want to > know what day Christmas 1988 was, I would then have to include the year and > ask “What day was December 25, 1988” and the same applies if the date is > beyond 2015. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf > Of [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2015 8:56 AM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: AN INDEPENDENT PLUG FOR APPLEVIS > > Hi all, > > I just want to tell everyone, in case we have newcomers, how very helpful I'm > finding both this list and also, for more clarification so often, the > resources of AppleVis with so many helpful useful and informative podcasts. > > I have listened to a number of podcasts now and just today picked up an app > called DatePicker which is nice and simple and does just what I need it to do > right now, that is, to tell me what day of the week a particular date falls! > Thanks so much for this little gem. I hope others find it useful also. I > found it easily enough in the UK Store and there were only three listed. It > was the first! > > For those additional resources, go to > http://www.applevis.com/ <http://www.applevis.com/> > > Carol P > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. 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