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title: "Date ranges"
description: "Every natural-language date pattern AI Chat understands, so you can scope a prompt to last week, a named month or a custom range."
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# Date ranges

Scope any AI Chat prompt to a period by naming the period in the prompt itself. You do not need a
date picker or a fixed format: write the range the way you would say it, and the assistant reads it.

- "Highlight unresolved key issues from **last 3 months**"
- "Tell me the summary from **yesterday's** meeting"
- "Compare revenue **between January and March 2024**"
- "What milestones are due **next quarter**?"
- "Show me progress **month to date**"

## Patterns AI Chat understands

Every pattern below works anywhere in a prompt.

### Last N periods

Use a digit or a written-out number, with days, weeks, months, or years.

- "Show me all customer feedback from the **last 10 days**"
- "What were the top issues reported in the **last 3 weeks**?"
- "Analyze sales performance over the **last 6 months**"
- "Compare our growth with competitors from the **last 2 years**"
- "Summarize all project updates from the **last two days**"
- "How has our team productivity changed over the **last five years**?"

Written numbers one through ten are supported.

### Couple and few

- "What urgent tasks came up in the **last couple of days**?"
- "Highlight key decisions made in the **last few days**"
- "What new opportunities arose in the **past couple of months**?"
- "Analyze user feedback from the **past few weeks**"

### Next N periods

- "What are the planned deliverables for the **next 3 weeks**?"
- "Show me projected revenue for the **next 6 months**"
- "List all upcoming events in the **next two days**"

### Past N periods

- "Analyze user engagement trends from the **past 30 days**"
- "What were our biggest achievements in the **past 2 years**?"
- "Highlight security incidents from the **past two weeks**"
- "What lessons can we take from the **past three months**?"

### Calendar periods

- "What were the key accomplishments from **last week**?"
- "Show me all invoices generated **last month**"
- "How did our company perform **last year**?"
- "What meetings were scheduled **previous week**?"
- "Compare our growth metrics with **previous year**"

### Current periods

- "What are the priorities for **this week**?"
- "Show me all expenses recorded **this month**"
- "How are we tracking against our goals for **this year**?"

### Named days

- "What meetings do I have scheduled for **today**?"
- "Show me the summary from **yesterday**'s stand-up"
- "What deliverables are due **tomorrow**?"
- "Remind me about the presentation **day after tomorrow**"
- "What was discussed in the meeting **day before yesterday**?"

### Quarters

- "What were our sales figures for **Q1**?"
- "Show me the performance metrics from **Q2 2024**"
- "What are the strategic initiatives for **Quarter 3**?"
- "How did we perform in the **first quarter**?"
- "What are the goals for **next quarter**?"
- "Compare our results with **previous quarter**"

### To date

- "What's our revenue performance **year to date**?"
- "Show me all project completions **quarter to date**"
- "What are the expenses **month to date**?"
- "How many support tickets were resolved **week to date**?"
- "What's the sales pipeline looking like **YTD**?"
- "Show me customer acquisition numbers **QTD**"

### Months

- "What were the hiring statistics for **January**?"
- "Show me all project milestones from **March 2024**"
- "What's been happening **since January**?"
- "List all customer onboarding from **Dec**"
- "What changes have occurred **since March 2024**?"

Full month names and their three-letter abbreviations both work.

### Explicit ranges

- "Compare our performance **between January and March 2024**"
- "Show me all activities from **Jan to Mar 2025**"
- "What trends emerged **from February to May 2023**?"
- "Show me all transactions **2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31**"

### Years

- "What were our major accomplishments in **2024**?"
- "Show me all financial reports from **2023**"
- "How did we perform compared to **2022**?"

### Halves and fiscal years

- "What were our key metrics for **H1 2024**?"
- "Show me the performance summary for **H2 2023**"
- "What's the budget allocation for **FY2024**?"
- "How did we close **fiscal year 2023**?"

### Anything else

If a phrase does not match one of the patterns above, the assistant still tries to read it as a
date.

- "What meetings are scheduled for **next Friday**?"
- "Show me all tasks completed **two weeks ago**"
- "What deliverables are due **January 15th**?"
- "What's planned **in 3 days**?"
- "Show me notes from **last Monday**"

Want a hand setting this up? [Book a free consult](https://calendly.com/speak-ai/consult?utm_source=docs&utm_campaign=consult) and we'll do it together on your account.

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Source: https://docs.speakai.co/help/ai-chat/date-ranges/index.mdx