This seems simple but I can't figure out how to do it. Is there any way to turn off the automatic date and time detection / conversion in Reminders in Mountain Lion? i.e. the thing that will turn text containing things like "10A" into a reminder for 10 AM. It's probably wrong 95% of the time for me, based on some unusual strings I tend to use, and it's becoming pretty annoying.
Four years and several OS updates later, this seems to be a persistent problem that Apple considers somehow helpful rather than annoying. My way of getting around it is spelling out the times and dates in a foreign language, e.g., Italian. It can still detect words like "sabato" (Saturday) and it will highlight the following Saturday in the little drop-down calendar as a suggested day, but it doesn't arbitrarily override my entry, thus allowing me to designate all the data to my liking.
Four years and several OS updates later, this seems to be a persistent problem that Apple considers somehow helpful rather than annoying. My way of getting around it is spelling out the times and dates in a foreign language, e.g., Italian. It can still detect words like "sabato" (Saturday) and it will highlight the following Saturday in the little drop-down calendar as a suggested day, but it doesn't arbitrarily override my entry, thus allowing me to designate all the data to my liking.
corpho, your reply and idea is the only one that is working for my computer. Since my Mac has this annoying 'help', I almost always enter info to Reminders using either my iPhone or iPad. Thank goodness these devices do not automatically turn words like 'noon' into times and dates.
Hi bro, I found the solution. Instead of hitting ENTER, trying hitting ESC instead (after keying in your data). It works for me on Mavericks 10.9.1 :-)
THANK YOU!
Reminders' automatic detection and conversion of time-related-looking numbers/words into a reminding time was my biggest issue with the app.
Using esc doesn't work. It's true, it doesn't invoke the automatic date/time detection. But, it also doesn't save the reminder! Quitting the Reminders app and reopening it, any edits I made where I used the esc key, are gone! They all revert back to what they were.
Shift-return instead of return
For Yosemite, it appears to be Command-Return that causes Reminders not to interpret what you've entered as a date.
Turn off automatic date and time detection in Reminders
