Rime expands dates and clock times into their spoken form automatically. Most common formats work without any preprocessing.Documentation Index
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For a tour of text normalization across all categories, see Text normalization. For specific patterns Rime doesn’t expand cleanly, see Pre-normalizing text.
Dates
Rime supports a variety of date formats, with year:| Format | Example | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| MM/DD/YYYY | 10/12/2024 | october twelfth, twenty twenty-four |
| YYYY-MM-DD (ISO) | 2021-03-15 | the fifteenth of march twenty twenty-one |
| M.D.YYYY | 8.8.2018 | august eighth twenty eighteen |
| Month name + day + year | April 2, 2024 | april second, twenty twenty-four |
| Day + month name + year | 5 July 2015 | the fifth of july twenty fifteen |
| Year alone | 1998 | nineteen ninety-eight |
| Month + year | May 2019 | may twenty nineteen |
| Month + ordinal day (no year) | January 1st, Jan. 1 | january first |
US (
MM/DD/YYYY) and ISO (YYYY-MM-DD) forms read with slightly different surface phrasing — “may twelfth…” vs. “the fifteenth of march…”. If wording consistency matters, pick one format.Times
| Format | Example | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| Clock + meridiem | 3:45pm, 10:30 AM | three forty-five PM; ten thirty AM |
| 24-hour | 15:45 | fifteen forty-five |
| On-the-hour | 6:00 | six o’clock |
| Dotted meridiem | 6 a.m., 2 o'clock p. m. | six AM; two o’clock PM |
| With time zone | 9:00 AM PST | nine AM PST |
| Word forms | noon, midnight, quarter past 6, half past 6 | as written |
| Ranges | 9:20-9:45 | nine twenty to nine forty-five |
am/pm and a.m./p.m. are accepted, with or without spaces between the time and the meridiem.
Known gaps
A few specific date and time patterns aren’t reliably expanded — most commonly MM/DD without a year (04/21), month-and-year alone (07/2025), bare hours with meridiem (3pm without :00), decade names (1990s), financial periods (Q1 2025, 1H 2024), and European 15h30 times. For the full list and a drop-in prompt template to handle them, see Pre-normalizing text.
Related
- Numbers, currency, and measurements for years used as standalone numbers, ranges, and ordinals
- Punctuation for controlling pauses around dates and times