Sometimes you know how long an event lasted, but you don't know exactly when it ended.

Say you saw a movie which started at 9:43pm and it lasted 2 hours, 22 minutes. In the past if you wanted to make an event on a Preceden timeline representing that movie, you'd have to calculate when it ended and enter the new date and time (12:05am) into as the end date.

A Better Way

Now you can include an offset in either the start or end date. Consider the previous example:

This will work for either the start or end date and you can add or subract offsets from the date.

Present + 1 year 6 months 10 seconds

May 2006 + 15 months

June 2010 - 3 months

June 20, 2006 10:20pm - 3 hours 42 minutes

One frequent request has been support "Present" as a start date. You could use this as a countdown, for example, if you want to know how long from the current date until something will occur. With this latest update, you can do that too.

Enjoy!