I've got a couple of problems with Hal.
First off, he seems to think that everyone's birthday is November first.
Second off, I can't get him to remember my friend Jan's birthday. I'll tell him that 'Jan's birthday is on June 4,' and he says 'O, really?'
Third off, when I try to manually enter an appointment for 'Jan's birthday' I get the error message: "The time entered is invalid"
I suspect that 2 and 3 have something to do with the fact that Jan is an abbreviation for January, and Hal doesn't want to associate it with anything but time. Bummer. I've tried to add using Janice, J_a_n_, etc. with no luck. Any advice?